Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2016

With that in mind, this last week of the year is a great time to reflect on what’s worked for you that you want to keep doing in 2017 and to identify the adjustments you could make to create better outcomes in the new year. I have a friend who likes to visit twice a month, I also have family a couple hours away, and then work travel.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? “Trust among the leadership team is paramount to the success of their organizations.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

By 2017, [the online] branding spend is expected to grow to $29.33 To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. Station messages, for example, took into account travelers’ anxiety. billion, or a 48.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Like international travel or meditation, it creates space for us to question our assumptions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. In 2017 women make up 25% of senior executives in the thousands of companies covered by the survey. Because the definition of “mid-market” can vary globally, they adjusted their definition to match local contexts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. Employee pressure can even drive significant turnover in senior leadership ranks, as happened recently at Nike , which earlier this year was sued for sexual discrimination by several former employees.

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