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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Do your R&D and innovation programs evaluate the competitive landscape?

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

You Don''t Actually Watch Foreign Films. And in this in-depth interview with Carlos Gomez-Uribe, the company''s VP of product innovation and personalization algorithms, and Xavier Amatriain, its engineering director, we all get to find out how the cinematic sausage is made. "A Dark dramas featuring a strong female lead."

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

In response, a growing number of experience design agencies (mine among them) are creating “experiential brand homes” like the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin — physical destinations (think of them as theme parks for the brand) that engage customers and build loyalty. Start in the heart. ” Consumers live in an HD world.

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When Charismatic Leadership Goes Too Far

Harvard Business Review

Especially when an organization is asked to become more innovative and to perform beyond normal levels, having followers with an unusually strong belief in the leader and their vision increases the odds of success. Over time, deepening loyalty creates negative changes in the leader’s behavior. Bu charisma can be a slippery slope.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

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