thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

As customers’ needs become more diverse, the managers of the future must adapt to meet their demands. Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. Today’s markets are rapidly becoming highly fragmented, reflecting diverse customer needs.

Mass Marketing 64

Mass Marketing Decentralization Management Diversity 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2013

Having a great job does not guarantee your career success; your competence no longer depends on what you know; and being an affluent consumer matters less than becoming a sought-after product. Change-agents are hard to find, hard to manage, and hard to retain. Economic and technological changes are reshaping the nature of work.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Brand Mass Marketing Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

However, what few people realized was that Microsoft leveraged an old but often overlooked tool that has remarkable power to manage such transitions. Over the centuries, firms have used hybrids to manage periods of difficult transition.

Business Model 8

Business Model Software Mass Marketing Competitive Advantage 8

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. Roche allows you to monitor and manage your own diabetes like a doctor.

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 1, 2020

You begin to sell your luxury products in mass-market retail stores to boost sales. — You accept orders even though you don’t have enough product to satisfy demand — Rather than being upfront with customers, you pray no one gets upset with the delay. Remember… Half the truth is often a whole lie.

Discount 105

Discount Price Mass Marketing Reputation 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

For example, if youre just here to sell sugar-water, then "innovating" slightly new flavors of soda every few months, and finding novel markets to "sell" it in (read: competencies in product innovation and mass marketing) is probably good enough.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I went in assuming his students believed corporate management and entrepreneurship were principles of contradiction — the only contrarians would be members of the flat earth society. My friend’s students saw themselves as entrepreneurial thinkers, yet at graduation, most of them will begin their careers in a corporation.

Mass Marketing 100

Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100