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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. The main goal of bidding is get the cheapest price. Let me give you the good news, and the sales news… There are several strategies you can employ to get around the bidding process, or legally and ethically change the bidding process. That’s the bad news.

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February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Tom Walter, the Serial Entrepreneur , explores whether ethical behavior in leadership is still given the weight necessary in Ethics in Leadership. Linda Fisher Thorton of Leading in Context asks and answers the question How is Ethical Leadership a Strategic Advantage?

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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. and spends it in international markets. Ethics Global business Retail'

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, discovered his noble purpose early in his life. Mackey told us in our interview that he believes that in recent decades, capitalism has lost its ethical mooring and that the explosion of corporate scandals is evidence of this drifting.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

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Qualified Black Women Are Being Held Back from Management

Harvard Business Review

. “Think about ‘male’ leader characteristics: confident, assertive, stand up for what they believe in,” points out Katherine Phillips, senior vice dean of Columbia Business School and the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics. “Now, think about stereotypes of ‘black female.’ ”