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The End Of Long-Term Planning

Strategy Driven

It’s the strength and suitability of the boat and its crew, rather than the quality of the initial plan that will determine the speed at which the boat travels. In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. Stuart Cross helps market-leading businesses such as Walgreens Boots Alliance, Masco Inc.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. This, as we know, is a major issue to be solved. Sadly, that wasn’t the case.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Kindle, Alexa) and even rocket technologies (his company Blue Origin competes with SpaceX for space travel).

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Mitchell’s company grew more than 500 percent from 2008-2013, so she had to quickly learn how to deal with the pains of rapid growth.

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Mitchell’s company grew more than 500 percent from 2008-2013, so she had to quickly learn how to deal with the pains of rapid growth.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

I realized I was quite good at telling them how to create an organized business and motivating them to make it real, so I decided I wanted to actually use these skills to build a real business for myself. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. In order to have a standardized offer, I designed a model: the SME deck.

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