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A Failure That Still Haunts Me

Harvard Business Review

But their pushback was firm: disintermediated meetings were preferred to ones facilitated by a third-party like myself. To keep your "slam dunks" from turning into failure, heed this advice: • Go beyond targeting, customizing your message, presenting a strong value proposition, and making it easy for prospects to say yes.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. It might consider taking the advice of NASA''s Charles Bolden Jr. So let''s behold them. It may even change the city.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. Rather than hiring new talent wholesale, AT&T has chosen to rapidly reskill more than a hundred thousand of its current employees.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. The Curious Incident of Brand Disintermediation. Furthermore, as those systems become increasingly capable, they could potentially lead to brand disintermediation.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . What advice do you have for policymakers? Facebook took 17 years and Bitcoin took only 12 years to achieve this milestone. Compete for data supremacy. Data powers the digital giants.