Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When markets are down, they become ripe for disruption and roll out the red carpet for innovative services, solutions, and products. Which makes me wonder, do these same truths hold true for individuals (and their careers!) Take a peek below for some foundational strategies to launch your new career path: 1. You are not alone.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Bezos famously argued in one of his annual letters that he wants entrepreneurs to be missionaries rather than mercenaries, yet the VC-led model pushes founders towards rapid growth and rapid exits rather than sustainable ventures that leave a positive societal impression. Societal benefits. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2013

Letter from a fan: Dear Jeffrey, I’m a big fan of your weekly column, especially the one about making sales vs. measuring sales activity. You seem to be doing the right thing – INCREASING SALES, and having the best year of your career. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It describes my situation to a tee.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Wait a while.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. How to Write a Cover Letter. You’ll have the opportunity to expand on your experience further down in your resume and in your cover letter. Further Reading.

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