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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

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From idea to strategy

Lead on Purpose

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! She has a tremendous task ahead to realign Yahoo’s products to the market. This is the new corporate strategy for Yahoo.

Strategy 100
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What a Week for Departures: HP's Hurd, Jet Blue's Slater and.

Next Level Blog

Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence?

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. No iPad mini at all. Apple's is 13.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

Marketing 105
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How Can We Scale Educational Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. Will it be the classic market driven forces of for-profit innovation driven by venture capital and corporate entities, or will it be through social entrepreneurship and philanthropy in the not-for profit model?