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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Whenever changes are made at work- an employee is given a new task or a new way to do a current task- there will be resistance. It’s human nature to resist new responsibilities or rules. For instance, a business wants to expand its social media marketing.

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Tribal or Transformational? How to grow your startup when new business rolls in

Strategy Driven

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. In the case of Division-D, we took a closer look at 3 Interactive’s market and saw the need to change the core of our company from a local media representation company to a high impact ad media buying firm.

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How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market

Harvard Business Review

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. As we spoke to them, Mansfield and his team shared five insights on how to work with senior management to get strategy-stretching innovations to market: 1.

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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. To understand the cost of Apple products that we associate with mass market success, we mapped the U.S. Apple Customers Marketing'

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. You must resist the temptation to “gravitate toward the familiar,” Watkins says. What the Experts Say.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states.