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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . Marketing: How much to spend on marketing.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

Technology changes faster than individuals can adopt it (the adoption gap ); individuals adapt more quickly to that change than organizations can (the adaptation gap ), and organizations adjust more quickly than legal and societal institutions can (the assimilation gap ). What Skills Do Digital Leaders Need?

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Start a Business at Any Age

Skip Prichard

Ageless startups are organized to help people contribute their ideas and skills to markets and communities they are passionate about. Communities and markets that people love and respect will be under significant pressure to reinvent themselves. People do not start selling early enough. Nobody wants to do sales.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”.

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8 Ways to Have a Successful Partnership

Leading Blog

Through many years of business experience, I learned some great lessons on what it takes to produce a successful partnership. This means priming the pump through joint sales calls and other marketing efforts. Once these early adopters are moving product, others will not be able to blame anyone but themselves for missing targets.

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Essential Elements Of A Business Website in 2021

Strategy Driven

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics. Content is still king.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures. Bundling these two mega-trends made a lot of sense.