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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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Beware of Innovations from Daily-Deal Sites

Harvard Business Review

Decades' worth of academic marketing research has repeatedly shown that price promotions are fraught with danger and are suitable only for very specific purposes under special circumstances. Simons Distinguished Associate Professor of Management at Rice University in Houston. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S.

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Leadership Is Not a Solitary Task

Harvard Business Review

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Marketer Simon Sinek has noted that , “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. Mahatma Gandhi, and Harriet Tubman.

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How Music Matters Now

Harvard Business Review

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. Kids could see what was happening more clearly and they went to work on it hammer and tong. Here, roughly, is the way music used to work as a producing station in our culture. The innovation was now spreading.