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Social Mood and Presidential Leadership

Coaching Tip

President has thus far been at the helm during a Grand Supercycle market decline. The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. This guide will help you survive a major deflationary trend, and even equip you to prosper.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Anita Campbell, SMB Trend Wire). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “But the book doesn't stop there! ” (Gary Slinger, Slinger’s Thoughts).

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Big trends in business and society tend to march along at a measured pace. When change happens fast in some area, it’s usually because multiple trends are converging to accelerate the process. From the non-profit side, the trend is toward measuring outcomes, not process. This is what is going on now in community development.

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Health Care Transparency Should Be About Strategy, Not Marketing

Harvard Business Review

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

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Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Which of these are impeding growth (or representing untapped markets)? But trampolines propel things forward.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically. Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season.

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Your Digital Strategy Shouldn’t Be About Attention

Harvard Business Review

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” And modern marketing makes zombies. It’s not.