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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? The title of your book is Be Different! Different in what way? ” -Stan Silverman.

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Good Brands Gone Bad | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Unlike BP, who mismanaged an accident, Halliburton and Monsanto self-inflicted the ethical decline of their brand image over many years. In just three years, our sales declined by 50% despite maintaining market share. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Leamington, Canada: The Little Town That Could

In the CEO Afterlife

And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA. Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. That’s right, one day.

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Five Great Ways to Earn Extra Money in 2010 :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Offer your services for website design , IT Consulting , or Internet Marketing. Market your service to small businesses, and people with home offices. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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