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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

Whether you are a potential new business owner or someone who has been in the game for years, you knew how your industry operated before, and you at least had an idea of how to navigate within that system. Some of the most successful companies don’t just change how they operate within an industry but switch industries altogether.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

When you think of Apple you immediate think of a company that has built a strong brand around quality design. Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against? About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post. And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class).

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. While M&A transactions absorb much of senior management’s attention and attract great interest from financial analysts and the business press, the company’s operational performance will ultimately make or break the transformation. Go for the occasional mega-acquisition.

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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

They are certainly not the first company to be severely embarrassed by information disclosures either coming too late or not at all – with grave consequences for reputation, brand, and shareholder value. Other managers see parcelling out information on a need-to-know basis as an operational maxim, important to maintaining efficiency.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. ” Instead, the labs are measured on factors like the potential of their ideas to change shopping behaviors in positive ways, and to burnish the Lowe’s brand. Get external validation. Invest real money.