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Standing Out in eCommerce: It’s Not As Easy As You Think!

Strategy Driven

The last few months have taught us a lot about business. Specifically, they’ve shown us which business models lend themselves well to change, and which do not. Embrace brand storytelling. Many brick and mortar retailers, especially, have thought twice about embracing eCommerce. We human beings love stories.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model. Your business, like every business, has a reason for existing. TED: Spread ideas.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model. Your business’s vision describes (in a measurable and tangible way) what the organization will become in the future.

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10 Kinds of Stories to Tell with Data

Harvard Business Review

Very few people would question the value of such stories, but just knowing that they work is not much help to anyone trying to master the art of analytical storytelling. Stories about the future are predictions ; they use, of course, predictive analytics. to create a statistical model, which is then used to predict the future.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data. Of course, communication must be about a particular topic. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful.

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Don't Wait for Change

Harvard Business Review

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Of course, this one event didn't change the wholesale distribution industry, and it cost Dirk a fair amount of time and money. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8 trillion industry that employs 5.6

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4 Things Successful Change Leaders Do Well

Harvard Business Review

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. Change leaders must go beyond storytelling, motivation, and mobilization efforts―they need to provide resources so that the organization has what it needs to win in the new environment. Entire value chains are being digitized.