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Ideas Are Not The Keys To Entrepreneurial Success

Tanveer Naseer

Disney didn’t think up animated films, or even amusement parks. No new idea comes formed ready for delivery to the market. Nobody has ever shown they have infallible, let alone reliable, instincts for anticipating how customers and markets receive new ideas. This is where some people make a huge mistake.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue? Our Freedom.

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What Goes Into Your Strategic Plan : Blog | Executive Coaching.

CO2

How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market? If they missed, why were they the ones that hold some of the best patents in the digital camera market in which many of the other competitors are paying them today?

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What goes into our strategic plan

CO2

How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market? If they missed, why were they the ones that hold some of the best patents in the digital camera market in which many of the other competitors are paying them today?

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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McDonald’s and the Challenges of a Modern Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, I wrote an HBR article predicting increased interest in supply-chain transparency: firms needed to develop strategies for knowing and explaining where stuff comes from. Global operations need consistent global standards. Bad headlines about foreign operations tell consumers, “This company still can’t be trusted.”

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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

and other developed markets? But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. For American firms partnering with Chinese companies, access to new international markets, especially in China, is an obvious gain. in a big way.