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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Seth Godin: The tribes we lead. Leading business and marketing practitioner Seth Godin imagines a world where the mass market dies, where mediocrity holds no economic value. He creates a vision for the world that is led by the brands that can develop, nurture and build a tribe of followers.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. If you can irrigate and get two or three harvests a year, though, your income goes up by infinity. The Moral Economy of the Peasant makes this argument clearly: Imagine standing in water up to your chin. They are in water up to their chins.