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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Grove’s 1980 question remains as ruthlessly relevant to C-suites as Ted Levitt’s 1960 classic, “What business are you in?” ” or my “Who do you want your customers to become?”

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. I’ve never heard anyone speak so fluently on the topic of innovation. Most notably he did it very well.

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