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AUGUST 30, 2021

Instead of offering discounts, focus on product and service quality. If people aren’t willing to pay full price for your stuff, then something is wrong with your offerings. Stress should not manage you, and friends, family, business, and health should not pay the ultimate price.

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JUNE 11, 2021

It’s hard to get the price you want when you want to get out. The idea that the price paid for companies is based on past performance is only partly true. I suggest that a seller’s puffing about new opportunities, products, and services be countered with pointed questions about why those ideas haven’t already been implemented.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

He describes lessons like don’t rely on others to fund your idea, imitate creatively, keep value higher than price, pivot often, and why they typically don’t get loans from big banks. Take pricing strategies, for instance. In hard times, conventional wisdom may say cut your prices to preserve customer numbers and therefore sales.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2017

Love Leads : The Spiritual Connection Between Your Relationships and Productivity by Steve Greene. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * "A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero. Designed Leadership by Moura Quayle.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion-dollar products at all. a game, we are looking for a product that ends up becoming wildly popular, more popular than anyone thought it could be in the early days.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

The 5 Choices : The Path to Extraordinary Productivity by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill and Leena Rinne. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “ I think of life as a good book. Sunstein and Reid Hastie. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

In many ways, this early prototype illustrates what IoT is all about — in principle, the Coke machine could automatically reorder supply when stock was running low or dynamically change prices, depending upon stock or demand. All of this suggests three things to think about beyond products to platforms and beyond platforms to ecosystems: 1.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

☙ Fundamentally, if you don’t have a compelling product at a compelling price, you don’t have a great company. ☙ Things move as fast as the least lucky and least competent supplier. Any natural disaster you care to name—all of those things have happened to our suppliers.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2018

Hyperfocus : How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction by Chris Bailey. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * "A personal bookshelf is critical to developing the ability to inspire others in the pursuit of worthy goals." — Ret. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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MARCH 1, 2021

There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable.

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MARCH 1, 2014

Low-Hanging Fruit : 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits by Jeremy Eden and Terri Long. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” — Descartes.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

All In shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive. Extraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. When these leaders and teams are successful, everyone benefits from their obsessive nature.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Anxiety at Work shows how everyone at all levels can work together to build an environment that fosters camaraderie, productivity, and calm. In today’s volatile, fast-paced, and ever-changing global climate, organizations and their employees are under more pressure than ever to perform. Wellbeing at Work by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

After building the case for conflict, Davey turns here attention to avoiding unnecessary conflict and establishing the ground rules for productive conflict. This section is worth the price of the book alone. That’s what productive tensions should feel like. Make productive conflict a habit. Clarify Expectations.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Time, Talent, Energy : Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power by Michael C. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." — Franz Kafka. Mankins and Eric Garton. Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Smarter Faster Better : The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” — Abraham Lincoln.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Tom Ziglar shares ten leadership virtues that are essential for coaching employees through immense change and creating an environment of maximum potential and productivity. In the book, you’ll learn how to the best leaders make their teams feel comforted, safe, and secure that they’re headed in the right direction.

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APRIL 1, 2021

It's the most expensive, least productive thing companies invest in without even knowing it. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “The great thing is to be always reading but never get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice.” — C. It's the sneakiest form of fear.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

5 Gears : How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer experiences without running these experiments? Running disciplined business experiments.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Think beyond products. Think especially beyond commodity products where competition is based only on price.”. But in a highly uncertain future, we need to look to the future (10 years ahead) for clarity then come back to Next to act in the now. Johansen looks at business development.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2015

Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno : What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System by Takehiko Harada. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelps.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with 2% of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. And you don’t need any formal authority to do it. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2015

Driven to Distraction at Work : How to Focus and Be More Productive by Ned Hallowell. All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “Beware of the person of one book.” — Thomas Aquinas. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Some of the best strategies used by humble leaders involve competitive pricing, fair employee compensation, collaboration and integration of operations to minimize waste, and alignment of direction across the organization in ethical pursuit of business opportunity. Leader humility has a lot to do with how productive we will be together.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

All titles are at least 40% off the list price and are available only in limited quantities. * * * “Reading is an honor and a gift from a warrior or historian who—a decade or a thousand decades ago—set aside time to write.” — Jim Mattis. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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JANUARY 1, 2022

He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson. Growth is the goal.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When one investment firm saw a stock price fall they wisely avoided a knee-jerk reaction. In an example she shares about Toyota, they found a way to use the insights gained from long-term research on current production. Direct Attention Away from Immediate Urges. “We

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Price is what you pay. This applies in any industry, whether the workpiece is a manufactured product, a meal in preparation, or an insurance claim under review. This approach has profound implications for employees who don’t make products or interact with customers. by Jacob Stoller. This calls for some major role shifts.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

He understands the mindset of the people he wants to create products for because he is one of them. He knows that you have to become the product to lead well. He finds powerful ways to make certain every employee is convinced that he knows their contribution is essential to the product’s success.” Jobs is the ultimate user.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Instead, aspire to the next level of service—restaurants with a price point that are at least double Chick-fil-A’s, and build a service model that resembles those.” Horst told them, “ Don’t look to be better than the other fast-food restaurants. Those limited expectations will just weigh you down. The cows are not on the Chick-fil-A payroll.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

I N TODAY'S competitive environment, where latecomers can copy almost any product or service, companies can no longer just be good at what they do. The stories are absorbing and alone are worth the price of the book.) Is the displacement of early pioneering companies an inevitable fate in the modern economy?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

As it grows, a business can usually deliver more value at a cheaper price. Amazon reinvents traditional business operations and puts them on digital foundations. In a traditional business, size is a double-edged sword. Amazon’s service improves with volume, whereas the traditional business runs into complexity costs.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future? Maneuver stands in opposition to existing “attrition” strategy, where firms fight expensive battles over small differences in market share based on essentially similar products.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Today’s best leaders realize that a strong corporate culture is the glue which unites people and provides them with a raison d’ etre that’s bigger than any product or service. Profit is necessary, but it shouldn’t be the paramount goal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

came up with the idea of opening a store with only one price—a dollar. Those values included: “We believe that productivity is attained by emphasizing strengths in a positive environment, not by dwelling on weaknesses in an environment of guilt and blame.”. Not a great place to build a retail business. Eventually Cal Sr.,

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