Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Failure To Inform – It’s difficult enough to gain competitive intelligence; why would we withhold our own? Editor’s Note: Scott is donating December 2015 proceeds from the sale of his book, Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning , to the United Way. We admire and applaud your generosity, Scott!

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Fashion Competitive Intelligence Bottom-up Bond 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Your job as a manager is to know what your customers will do next month or next year. That competitive intelligence can not only help individual salespeople become more effective, it can also help your company make better strategic decisions. The strategic value of competitive intelligence can be far-reaching.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. While job changes can be a powerful catalyst for development, they can also lead to the derailment of a promising high potential leader. There are inherent risks and pitfalls that can be avoided or need to be managed.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Back then, GrubHub was already the leading online ordering app.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The perspectives and intuitive customer insights that come from having diverse employees — particularly employees who share cultural connections with customers — is real competitive intelligence. Yet, as much success as American companies have had overseas, they also face huge challenges. And it’s essential to the U.S.

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