CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

A good present-day example of this type of leadership can be found in Virgin Group Ltd, a very successful corporation renowned for its presence in a wide variety of global markets. This style requires the leader to continually adjust to emergent constraints and limitations imposed on him. email jimestill at gmailWarning.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. Develop an Adaptive Mindset: To navigate successfully through the maze of VUCA, leaders will need to be comfortable with unclear situations and travel into unexplored paths. First, let us look at these shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

One customer might try on shirts without having to travel to the store. Retailers looking to develop a virtual commerce strategy should consider breaking it down along the following dimensions. This probably won’t be an issue in the long run, but today the two environments have different constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Through our experience utilizing the "jobs-to-be-done" concept in a range of settings, my colleagues and I have developed five tips for would-be innovators: the five Cs of opportunity identification (modeled after marketing's famous four Ps — price, product, place, and promotion). Constraints. Circumstance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

In addition to lifting some travel restrictions, American financial institutions can establish accounts with their Cuban counterparts and telecommunication firms can export to and install equipment on the island. A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Outcomes are the difference made by the outputs: better traffic flow, shorter travel times, and fewer accidents. This starts with truly understanding your customers' needs—their challenges, issues, constraints, priorities—by walking in their shoes and in their neighborhoods, businesses, and cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Some travel is easing. There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. They don’t know how to market them effectively. A lot of people get hung up on the issue of travel between the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Traditionally, companies have found ways to navigate these challenges internally, in research and development (R&D) divisions like the famed Xerox PARC , founded in 1970, or through programs that encourage employees to dedicate a small percentage of their time to side projects, as 3M began doing in 1948. A Different Approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

” Deepak Malhotra, a professor in the Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit at Harvard Business School, says that it’s a reasonable question for a potential employer to ask and it’s in your best interests to answer it. Is it because you want to travel or save up to eventually go back to school?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

The more specific and feasible the plan you develop, the less daunting the situation will seem when it comes. When facing constraints in one area, be willing to relax standards in others. Accept the inevitable, and anticipate how you will handle it logistically: Call in Grandma — or the back-up babysitter? Telecommute?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. ” If you can’t run experiments within the constraints of your job, look outside the company. Some people want to help sick people directly while others aspire to help pass the Affordable Care Act. ” Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Research by the Content Marketing Institute estimates that 90% of consumer marketers are investing in content. In order to succeed, marketers will have to learn to think like publishers. Marketers need to take the same approach. Most content marketers start with implementation ideas, such as social media or a video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. And it traveled in your pocket.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Sure, speed and boldness are important, but what is it about the culture of these companies that cultivates them?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The fact that the continent is tired of being lectured to and treated as a curiosity to sate the intellectual pretensions of Westerners doesn't mean that Africans are blind to the challenges they perceive as obstructing every aspect of their continent's development. Take any newspaper printed in Africa any day.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. In this fun and provocative page-turner, Michael Fanuele, one of the world’s most successful marketing strategists, shares The Six Skills of Inspiration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

strong opposition to the Iran nuclear deal; a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries), many companies are still looking to invest in the region. unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. if the U.S. Product adaptation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There’s also the possibility of travel bans on executives (including on those under unresolved court proceedings), and good, old-fashioned intimidation. Nor do those countries have the resources to develop them rapidly. Moving production nearer to those markets makes sense. technology company needs. or European brand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Traveling and living abroad seems to broaden individuals’ perspectives while also improving creativity. At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. This is not just true for the U.S. but everywhere… This requires dramatic transformation. in the U.S., but our exports may decline.

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