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Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 3 of 3

Strategy Driven

And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever! We’re blessed, as a society, with an unprecedented combination of time, technology, information, and the quantified self: yes, we want it all. part 3 of 3 !

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How to Build a Strategic Narrative

Harvard Business Review

” With changes happening so quickly from so many directions – competition, regulation, technology, talent, customer behavior – it’s easy for one’s story to become generic or outdated. As an example, between 2008 and 2015, IBM organized its marketing under the shared purpose of “Building a Smarter Planet.”

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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What Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. Infrastructure is patchy, markets are fragmented, and regulations are complex — and although incomes are rising, poverty remains widespread. Strategy & Execution BOOK.

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What U.S. CEOs Can Learn from GM’s India Failure

Harvard Business Review

As recently as 2015, when Mary Barra, CEO of GM, committed to investing another $1 billion in expanding Indian operations, the company seemed to understand the impact of scale. However, it has now decided to pull back its investment and run its Talegaon factory in western India, to make cars primarily for the Latin America market.

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The White House Selfie: The Visual Web’s Latest Victory

Harvard Business Review

A photo posted by Perry Hewitt (@perryhewitt) on Jul 1, 2015 at 8:27am PDT. They are moving their marketing strategy from create and control to influence and leverage. Marketing and IT organizations are partnering to create requirements, purchase, and deploy these technologies. whitehousetour.