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What A.G. Lafley's Return Means for P&G

Harvard Business Review

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But note how P&G did it.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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Why Your Company Should Use the Kickstarter Model to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Impulse patronage" looks and feels like impossibility to anyone who isn''t a manager with a cash-flow-positive P&L and the courage to take a chance. They want to see you communicate this in your video, and they want you to offer creative rewards that are fairly priced.". Perhaps it should be. I''d say not.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth.

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Are You Leading Cash Registers?

Lead Change Blog

The front of the bin had it priced at $1.99. I explained it was the only one left and was loose in the bin with a price of $1.99. She called back to the plumbing department and the man who waited on me came to her register and informed her the price was $1.99 Somehow inventory had not been replenished. He was gone a while.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Thanksgiving Wishes – Please download the full version of "Beyond.

Rajesh Setty

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. I was hooked on the book as soone as I saw your nine L's in the table of contents. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME.