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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

For their data, the researchers turned to the movie business, where all three types of resources are at work on every project. Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. So how can the $300 House be marketed effectively? Triple the U.S. population by three. How do we do that? And so it grows.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business."