Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Supply Chain ROI Business Model Emotional Intelligence 153

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Regardless of how fractured business focus can become, people are at the center of everything that brings business success. There is a fundamental human need to feel connected to others and the depth and quality of that connection initiates and fosters unity. Deutser : Organizations are made up of people.

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Open-book Construction Business Model Books 93

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. When drivers of change bump up against consumers’ immovable human needs and wants tension arises. You’ll agree that these desires don’t come and go from season to season.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So, you act like an anthropologist to understand human needs and problems before jumping to solutions. Most of us in business, if we need to discover how to do something new, use PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheets to rationalize our approach. And modern management systems must become far more adaptive.

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

While there has been a lot of discussion about “what’s left for humans?” If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete.

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Company Long-term Short-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

It’s the greatest use of domestic water and we have a big business in emerging markets where people have to work hard to fetch water or pay a lot for it. When Paul arrived at Unilever he immediately started creating a new vision and business model with both growth and sustainability at its core. We don’t have all the answers.

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