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The Magic of Steve Jobs

Women's Leadership Exchange

It does seem like Jobs has supernatural powers to be able transform an entrepreneurial venture into the number one brand in the world, producing products that have changed our lives dramatically. He envisions brilliant products and creates and markets them beyond effectively. First off, let's face it, Jobs is a true visionary.

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The Magic of Steve Jobs Part 2

Women's Leadership Exchange

And anyway Steve Jobs lives on in the hearts of most Apple product users (and who isn’t?) It does seem like Jobs has supernatural powers to be able transform an entrepreneurial venture into the number one brand in the world, producing products that have changed our lives dramatically. He is the decider. And we want it BAD!!

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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

The consulting market across the world is valued at 262 billion dollars. You need someone who can advise on products from Microsoft pay now and get it fixed quickly. When you are making a proposal for a change or project it can sometimes be difficult to get a hearing from the decisionmakers in the company. Expert Advice.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Yet, the change happened, because they relied on their so-called “production capacity allocation rule”. Gordon Moore and Andy Grove, well before this actual dilemma became relevant, had put together a formula – the production capacity allocation rule – to decide what products would receive priority in their manufacturing plant.

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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

Shiller had already circulated his devastating demonstration that asset prices were much too volatile to be explained by fundamentals, and the 1987 market crash had provided an object lesson in panic. It doesn't offer much hope, though, for clear guidelines to macroeconomic decisionmaking. And nothing happened.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. New ideas tend to evoke fear and anger – we are programmed to prefer the comfort and safety of established norms.