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5 Modern Business Success Tips

Strategy Driven

As your modern business expands, your IT needs will increase. Outsourcing will free your IT team’s time to focus on core business objectives. If you want to change product prices, start with two or one geographic area to measure the outcome. Their leadership style should encourage support and accountability.

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Lessons from Avon

Women on Business

This week Avon CEO Andrea Jung was released from her position and stock prices soared. Business objectives should be consistent. In an international company like Avon the need for a consistent business message is so important. The company is trying to find its footing and the CEO was the unequivocal target.

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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

If you’re willing to strip away all the excuses, explanations, rationalizations, and justifications for business failures, and be really honest in your analysis, you’ll find only one plausible reason - poor leadership. Poor Branding : A poor brand generally means leadership has failed.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

But don’t be so obsessed with them that you allow yourself to be drawn into an emotional price war. Winning at any cost is a signal that you have lost sense of the business objectives. Know the enemy. Go ahead, hate your competitors. All you have to do is make them think you will compete at any cost.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. What Your Stock Price Really Means. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Underneath the varied thickets of research and rhetorical styles, some universal truths persist.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

But good planning and proper leadership support can help. This meant transforming a salesforce, which had been conditioned to sell on price, to sell value-added services. This meant transforming a salesforce, which had been conditioned to sell on price, to sell value-added services.

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Global Companies Need to Adopt Agile Pricing in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

As the currency was crashing, he found himself facing a painful dilemma: either raise prices to recoup the losses and hit his annual target — set in U.S. But with the currency changing every day, how much of a price increase should he consider? Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g., Federal Reserve.

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