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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? The title of your book is Be Different! Different in what way? ” -Stan Silverman.

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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Learn from leaders in marketing, HR technology, structural engineering, corporate catering, innovation consulting, entrepreneurial education, benefits administration, and construction.” His scorecard checks whether products are meaningful, sold ethically, produced in a sustainable way, and so on. And your organization?”

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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The Ethics of Using Paid Content in Journalism

Harvard Business Review

Nowadays, marketers are inserting their content in much more effective ways. But what are the ethical lines this paid-for content should not cross? In addition, I count Richard Edelman and Steve Rubel — Steve wrote the report — as friends. What the report calls "sponsored content" I prefer to call "paid content."

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business Review

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. With over 1.3

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

They learn that organizational failures result from rigid reporting lines, “one right way” problem-solving, cultures that shoot – or specify unreasonable standards for – the messenger, and restrictive communications protocols. When they hire CEOs, Boards of Directors must make ethics the deal-breaking criterion.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.