Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. Alinka Rutkowska, CEO of Leaders Press. Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx.org. John Mattone, President & CEO of John Mattone-Global. Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Tom Ziglar, Ziglar Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Levitt and Dubner, they of Freakonomics, offer a slightly more sophomoric example when they point out that the "average" adult in a global sample has one breast and one testicle. Wouldn't it make sense to manufacture a lukewarm tea that everyone is guaranteed to like? Problem, of course, is that it doesn't make any sense to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Twenty five years ago Steve Hughes, now the CEO of Sunrise Strategic Partners, was walking through an orange juice plant when he had an epiphany that turned into a $500 million business. Theodore Levitt's classic theory -- in under two minutes. He was in a plant and noticed some of the workers on a break. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

This focuses the CEO squarely on asset utilization, which makes them less likely to consider strategies and business models that do not factor in using the company’s existing assets. Investors evaluate established firms by their return on assets (ROA). But this doesn’t seem to pay off as well as they expect.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

All CEOs may soon need to find ways to align APIs with their growth strategies. In the classic HBR article “Marketing Myopia, ” Theodore Levitt asked a provocative question: “What business are you really in?” ” Today the rise of APIs make that question even tougher to answer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole! ”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). ” As Levitt used to tell his students, “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. Levitt suggests that leaders ask themselves: What business are we really in?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Theodore Levitt's classic theory -- in under two minutes. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once said, “If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.” Related Video. The Explainer: Marketing Myopia.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. Steve Levitt - Author of Freakanomics and Super Freakanomics , Steve was superb.

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