thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties.

Mass Marketing 64

Mass Marketing Decentralization Management Diversity 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

In my teacher's mind, it was an investment in a future career. But my parents gave in, and purchased a beautiful viola that helped me sit 1st and 2nd chair in high school and college respectively, but doesn't help in my consulting career. They also are finicky about marketing ("how you market it").sometimes

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

The advantage of hybrids is that they are a half-step that can help their developers manage long and difficult transitions, such as the one between generations of technology or the transition between careers. The challenge of hybrids is that they are only temporary half-steps, and so in retrospect they can look clumsy.

Business Model 8

Business Model Software Mass Marketing Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. The brain viewed the masses below it as the muscle.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100