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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. Southwest Airlines has been giving its employees and customers L — love and leadership — since its founding in 1971. Managers aren’t comfortable with this powerful emotion in the workplace. Leadership is centered on emotions.

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During this Crisis, Don’t Expect Business as Usual from the Family Enterprise

Strategy Driven

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. Rather than deal with these issues alone, the legacy owner is better off using this opportunity to bring others in and develop a shared response. Family businesses and wealth are under threat like never before.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

However, the traditional business plan is only widely used and includes; Creating an executive summary mentioning the mission statement, vision, services, employees, leadership team, location, products, of your business. Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. Choosing the Proper Vendors.

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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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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense. In essence, the venture client, instead of equity, buys the technology of a startup when it is still a venture to do so.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. If you had a full-time job, you won. Entrepreneurial workers also win.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. But Messieurs Barnes and Heini, joint managing directors of Aldi UK, have added more fresh products and up-market lines at prices 15-20% below those of regular UK supermarkets. You might wonder how anyone can make money with such low prices.

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