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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

If a company puts its talent first in its strategy and decision-making, these problems won’t arise in the first place. Listening to your staff will establish trust among peers, managers, and higher-ups, which leads to loyalty and engagement. Open your schedule—and your team’s schedules—to allow one-on-one meetings with any worker.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

There are some excellent business & corporate strategy examples of companies implementing the BoP model. Strategy bottom of the pyramid prahalad strategy' By focusing on the collective affordability of the BoP not only can you disrupt existing business models but you can also create new ones. To quote the late, great C.K.

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Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

Poor customer service is a killer of customer loyalty. If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy. I have sat through many strategy meetings listening to bright leaders dream up bold plans without vetting their financial feasibility.

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When Great Company Cultures Go to the Dark Side: 7 Signs Your Organization Is Headed in the Wrong Direction

The Empowered Buisness

So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. The most ingenious strategy in the world will never come to fruition without creating the right culture to drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors.

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

There''s much more in this article, from how the Medium team built its strategy from the ground up to how it established key management tenets that revolve around what the company needs to accomplish in order to serve its core purpose. It turns out that the difference lies in whether someone''s moral compass points to loyalty or fairness.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

By not over-reacting and instead allowing those consumers to walk away, Hastings was able to keep his company focused on its strategy of value-added services and avoid the distraction of a price war. Next is to figure out what to offer a Super Consumer for their loyalty and when to offer it (e.g.,

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Don’t Draft a Digital Strategy Just Because Everyone Else Is

Harvard Business Review

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” For example, big data has prompted one company to change its primary customer from CFOs to CMOs.