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General Motors layoffs to hit Kansas workers hardest in 2025

HR Digest

The Bolt EVs predecessor was a modest success, selling over 100,000 units since 2016, but it lagged behind Teslas mass-market offerings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which represents many Fairfax workers, is likely to push for robust support during this transition. For GM, the stakes are high.

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Sustainability Is Fueling Innovation at Ferrari

Harvard Business Review

We make a Purosangue, yes, but we don’t make a Purosangue for the same reason the mass market players look at it. They do SUV because the market is growing. This is important because that is a sporty car, and if you try it’s really a sporty car. Because other people why they do SUV?

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Three Ways Leaders Can Improve Decision Making

Lead Change Blog

The little-known fact is that Nokia had invested USD40 billion into creating a similar style iPhone device with color touchscreens, maps and shopping but the product never hit the shelves as management thought it would not have mass market appeal. How wrong they were. Slow Down To Speed Up.

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How Disrupters And Incumbents Respond To Technological Change

The Horizons Tracker

For new entrants, the dilemma revolves around whether a specific niche should be targeted to avoid any reaction from the incumbent, or whether to target the mass market and risk provoking such a reaction from the incumbent. Managing disruption.

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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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Technology Makes Cities More, Not Less, Attractive

The Horizons Tracker

” After 25 years of the mass-market internet the researchers believe it has been shown that these theories are fanciful in the extreme and the internet hasn’t removed the importance of face-to-face interactions or diminished the cost of distance.

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The 5 Habits of Mind that Self-Made Billionaires Possess

Leading Blog

Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. What is interesting is that most organizations weed out the very people that they need to create massive value.