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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. According to a documentary video we often use in our culture development planning sessions, Southwest Airlines is “the company that love built.” Managers aren’t comfortable with this powerful emotion in the workplace. They were named the #1 U.S.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. Growing and Developing an Effective Team. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Are they out-competing their rivals, or are they using their size and influence to avoid competition altogether? It could be because “software development typically requires large upfront fixed costs,” meaning that firms that are already pretty large are the ones who can afford to invest in it.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Two developments bear noting. The second is influencing how your message gets amplified. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. The cost of covering a golf tournament doesn’t depend on whether Tiger Woods plays.

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