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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

We are witnessing the creation of an entirely new paradigm, a fierce wave of technological innovation boosting generations of new businesses and business leaders. Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3D printing, and robotics are among the most important technologies of today’s rapidly changing world.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Marketing Myopia, 50-Plus Years On

Harvard Business Review

It's hard to overestimate the influence Ted Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" has had on the world of marketing and beyond. Why has "Marketing Myopia" lasted so well over a 50-year-period when so many management big ideas have gone the way of the failed industries Levitt cites in his classic? Its clarity and its ambition.

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The Strategic Value of APIs

Harvard Business Review

Take the case of IBM’s Watson , a cognitive-computing technology that allows humans to make sense of large volumes of data. In the old days, IBM may have opted to leverage Watson’s unique potential on its own and used it to reinforce the company’s prevailing position in software and technology.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. 3) Mental – My role as host of The Ziglar Show requires me to study the messages of today’s top world influencers, and it’s a dramatic gift. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. Just the two of us.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. It serves as a great introduction to other works by modern writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt, who translate theories from the social and physical sciences into everyday life. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. It serves as a great introduction to other works by modern writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt, who translate theories from the social and physical sciences into everyday life. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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