The Practical Leader
MARCH 25, 2020
When Nobel Laureate, Michael Levitt, first analyzed Chinese infection rates, he tracked an increase of 30% per day in Hubei province. Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days.
Reality-Based Leadership
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Levitt and Stephen J. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith , by Anne Lamott. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , by Simon Sinek. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything , by Steven D. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom , by Don Miguel Ruiz.
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Joseph Lalonde
MARCH 14, 2018
Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Lastly, I do not forget to take care of myself by exercising and traveling. Principle number four is to eat well.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2014
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner note that most street-level drug dealers earn modest wages at best — they may neglect their schoolwork, and some take straight jobs in addition to make ends meet. For instance, real estate site Zillow has 812 employees, and travel site Kayak has only 205. Hear me out.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2015
Outside of health care, Watson is already creating new ecosystems for IBM in radically new areas such as recipe making, shopping, and travel. In the classic HBR article “Marketing Myopia, ” Theodore Levitt asked a provocative question: “What business are you really in?”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 26, 2016
The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”
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. Southwest Airlines delivered it with air travel. He pointed out that the basic product qualities (i.e.,
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