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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on. Looking to the next 10 years of the 21 st century, there is no question that the business, social, political, economic and technological environment will be very different.

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Four Questions to Ask Before Scaling Your Business

Strategy Driven

Question 2: How large is the target market for your solution? While each entrepreneur needs to answer for him or herself the question: how large a market needs to be to be worth their attention? The entrepreneur may be smarter about a given solution, but the market is always smarter about their problems.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3.

Strategy Driven

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Actually, a Community Marketing strategy helps define the business purpose and elevates the concept. Figure 1: The Community Marketing Strategy The relational diagram involves the entire spectrum of people. Relational Leadership is people-centric.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. By far the best synthesis and summary of the digital keys to the campaign's success is Engage DC's Inside the Cave. They're right.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. Implementation criteria.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.