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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

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LVMH, Hermès, and the Danger of Going 'A Little Bit Public'

Harvard Business Review

Bernard Arnault has a proven track record of building luxury goods brands and creating financial value for a multitude of luxury product lines. Besides, both of these companies are publicly traded, and both are still largely controlled by a small investor group or influential leadership team. That is not what he does. Just money.

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CEOs Should Activate Their Company's Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

Triggering this process of collective engagement — Venkat Ramaswamy and I call it co-creation — is what is missing in the agenda of many CEOs today (to say nothing of our political leaders). Companies in emerging countries such as Brazil and India are showing the way. Having already mobilized diversity suppliers (e.g.,

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