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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). If you are not yet an Instigator, sign up. He also did some post-doctoral work at Harvard. The answer is simple.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I used to pride myself on how few hours of sleep I would get, thinking that it gave me a competitive edge in business if I stayed up half the night working. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

No doubt some people were surprised by this filing, because they grew up at a time when bright yellow boxes of film accompanied every family vacation and celebration. Levitt argued that it's always better to define a business by what consumers want than by what a company can produce. bankruptcy court.

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Publishing's 169 Years of Disruption, Told in Six Freakouts

Harvard Business Review

The 29-year-old father of four (he would eventually be blessed with six more children) and already-famous author was writing up a storm and squeezing every penny he could from each word he wrote. Then 1939 snuck up on publishers. Maybe it's a good time to dredge up a chestnut from Ted Levitt's classic HBR article, "Marketing Myopia."

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How Behavioral Economics Could Help Reduce Credit Card Delinquency

Harvard Business Review

.” However, we know from many other domains of life that people can have the best of intentions but fail to follow through on them. But life gets in the way; we procrastinate and end up not doing what we intended to do. My colleagues and I thought that this might also be true for some of the delinquent credit card customers.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

The reward system for app developers follows a familiar “winner take all” pattern described by Cornell economist Robert Frank , where a few outstanding successes capture huge returns while those not lucky enough to reach the top see very little. A few may win big; many or most will end up living with their moms. Hear me out.

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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

Finally, fringe markets like hackers or students can put up with the limitations that often characterize early versions of disruptive ideas. As Ted Levitt pointed out 55 years ago, companies develop significant myopia over time, only seeing things that are squarely in the mainstream of their market.