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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). This final chapter puts it all together.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

“Six Disciplines differs in that respect – it’s all about teaching a system of getting done the things that we all know need to be done.” ” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. Gary Harpst is the direct opposite.”

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

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Health Care Transparency Should Be About Strategy, Not Marketing

Harvard Business Review

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. running according to free-market efficiencies! Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. And who could argue that our current system meets even that low bar ?

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