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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. Whether you want to admit it or not, competition is part of your world, and likely a bigger part than you’d care to admit. Now it’s your turn – how well do you know your competition?

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The Big Picture of Business- Flip Sides, Second Acts and Successful Careers

Strategy Driven

It was a stylized 1940’s film noir mystery, the epitome of style and glamour. Well-trained and experienced actors carried the plays and films. He scored many films and the “Mork and Mindy” TV series. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. One of my favorite movies of all-time is “Laura.”

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Questions from salespeople: Jeffrey, As you suggest, my company is going to start filming client video testimonials. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Marketing & Sales business management business sales buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven'

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. And if trust is lost, the relationship is lost as well. The Sincere Company.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). failure to cope with the extremely fierce competition in China.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.