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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. airline in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking for 2020 based on key operational performance metrics. According to a documentary video we often use in our culture development planning sessions, Southwest Airlines is “the company that love built.”

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Conclusion.

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If Innovation Is Happening, Where Is The Creative Destruction?

The Horizons Tracker

” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts. These datasets cover all of the businesses operating in the economy.

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Who Rules the Web Now?

Harvard Business Review

As each of these companies expands its fixed-cost infrastructure, profits grow geometrically because the additional variable cost of adding each new user is near zero. Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs. Greater scale bestows greater competitive advantage.

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

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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