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Join Me in Des Moines?

Steve Farber

If you’re in the Midwest of the US–or just have a hankering to travel there–please join me at The Extreme Leadership Intensive in Des Moines, IA on July 18 & 19, 2013. This day-and-a-half program will help you apply the principles of Extreme Leadership directly to your business. Click here to register.'

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Are You Certifiable? Announcing The Next Extreme Leadership Certification Weekend

Steve Farber

Right now, there are only a handful of certified, licensed, Extreme Leadership Workshop facilitators on the planet, and you’ll soon have an opportunity to be one of them. The program will be held in San Diego from January 11 – 13, 2013. By the way, the Extreme Leadership Summit is next week!

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Are You Certifiable? Announcing The Next Extreme Leadership Certification Weekend

Steve Farber

Right now, there are only a handful of certified, licensed, Extreme Leadership Workshop facilitators on the planet, and you’ll soon have an opportunity to be one of them. The program will be held in San Diego from January 11 – 13, 2013. By the way, the Extreme Leadership Summit is next week!

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience.

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Why Target’s Canadian Expansion Failed

Harvard Business Review

The Canada expansion was announced in January 2013 when Target bought the 220 leases of Zellers, a declining and now defunct Canadian discount chain, from Hudson’s Bay. What Target may not have fully appreciated was that the Canadian discount sector is a particularly tough market. encounters and those new to the brand.

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How Walmart Can Start Competing Online

Harvard Business Review

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, feeling it had no other option, the company adopted a low-cost strategy on the outside: last-minute price-cutting. That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. Our travel agent partners were frustrated with us for last-minute price discounting and did not feel like real partners.