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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

Great Leadership By Dan

Hotels by AirBnB. Because they are more focused on customer engagement than just on the initial purchase, they are forced to develop agility and flexibility are core cultural strengths. But there may be other attributes—they use your products regularly and well. And you don’t want to build products just because “you can”.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on.

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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

HP Has Decreasing Product Quality. HP used to be synonymous with great products, but lately quality is not the immediate adjective you would jump to when you describe HP Products. Deciding that personal computing is not a lucrative market is like spitting on small businesses. that focuses on customers and innovation.

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What’s Your Leadership AQ?

Lead Change Blog

AQ is defined as “the ability to adjust course, product, service, and strategy in response to unanticipated changes in the market”— and indeed, the Harvard Business Review characterised it as “the new competitive advantage.” They study the “underdogs,” the new market entrants, and quickly learn from them.

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How to Hold onto Your Customers in a Crisis

Leading Blog

Customers will remember which hotels and theaters offered a refund on unusable reservations, which newspapers dropped their paywall and provided free content, and which gyms quickly mobilized to send out daily video fitness classes. Every customer is a special person with special needs, who is a pleasure to serve.

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Are You Certified?: The Benefits Of Certification In Business

Strategy Driven

Develop your skills and knowledge. However, such credentials can still be important for helping you to develop necessary skills and knowledge. It can often become a fun challenge for hotels to earn that extra star rating, for an investment firm to achieve GIPS compliance or for a farm to achieve organic certification.

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