Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I work hard day in and out and take massive action.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” Theodore Levitt said, “The future belongs to those who see opportunities before they become obvious.” As you learn, keep asking yourself “What are the implications for my career, my industry and my life?” Americans spend more money each year on beer than the do on books. How does it affect me?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. Not bad, but hardly Zuckerbergian. This is not uncommon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Levitt argued that products were more complicated to consumers than most manufacturers considered. Apple intentionally left 3G compatibility out of the initial iPhone when it was an industry standard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 1960, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt published a landmark paper in Harvard Business Review that urged executives to adapt by asking themselves, “What business are we really in?” These companies succeeded not because they were faster, but because they developed products that were demonstrably better than their competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Your most important customers may not be the people who buy your products but the ones who regulate your company and industry. With apologies to Ted Levitt , a new “Marketing Myopia 2.0” State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. The unhappy innovation inference? ” has emerged.

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