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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals.

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The Big Picture of Business: Business Strategy – Quotes on Business

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. ” Robert P. ” Roy L. There is a difference between knowing a product-industry and growing a successful business. They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. One such activity was introduced by Deb Henretta while leading P&G Asia.

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The GOP Needs a New Product, Not a New Brand

Harvard Business Review

The party has been selling pretty much the same product for more than three decades now, while market conditions have changed. It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need. Lafley and Roger L.

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Real Leaders Have Real Lives

Harvard Business Review

David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. I'm more productive and my wife is thrilled. It dawned on me that if this was work I would have all kinds of tactics. All names have been changed and specific titles disguised.) And I've had better meetings as a result.

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Ouch: A Year's Worth of Occasionally Disturbing Research on How to Get Ahead

Harvard Business Review

To generate ideas, run electric current through your brain: Research subjects who received electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes of the brain were 3 times more likely to come up with the fresh insight needed to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than people in a control group, according to Richard P. Chi and Allan W.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. The rapid growth of natural gas production (the biggest energy story of the year) and the high-profile failure of one solar manufacturer (Solyndra) have confused people about the prospects for clean tech.