Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simon Tyler ( Speaker, Coach, & Author ) Authenticity - knowing who you are, what is important to you, what you stand for and being comfortable in all of that. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Liz Mellon ( Leadership Expert ) Curiousity. Stay human.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. Another user, Simon, has a question and posts it just to see what happens next.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.” THE STORY BEGINS. Like us on Facebook.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. Could men have done the same?

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. It’s nearly impossible to capture all those traits — every organization will have a different set of norms and customs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. For example, as driverless cars improve and we become more comfortable with them, the introduction and resolution of laws limiting their liability could facilitate the emergence of insurance markets that should drive down the cost of error.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I see Amazon’s price strategy with Whole Foods, fueled by constant testing and experimentation, to evolve in three steps: changing price perception, growing the market for healthy foods, and then applying insights to other offline retail sectors and services. Growing the market for healthy foods. Changing price perception.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. The economist Herbert Simon posited that in a society where many of our material needs have been satisfied, people’s attention becomes the limited resource.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

He operates in a world where craft and artistry are real positives. There’s a tremendous body of management and marketing literature focused on the importance of purpose to organizational success. But real clarity comes when you can list the rules you’re prepared to break, or the wisdom you’re prepared to subvert to achieve your goals.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. This “one step back, two steps forward” logic manifests itself in many ways — risky R&D projects, pursuing sustainability goals, paying above-market wages to improve loyalty, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses. Third, firms need to consider their nonmarket strategies vis à vis their home government.

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.".

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Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. In this fun and provocative page-turner, Michael Fanuele, one of the world’s most successful marketing strategists, shares The Six Skills of Inspiration.

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

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