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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

Enable buyers to participate in creating what they want. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy who wrote "We're entering a 'bottom-up' economy in which consumers will migrate to businesses that allow them to be participants in the process of creating what they want." Provide the unexpected that triggers a euphoric response.

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Morning Advantage: How Bosses Do Harm

Harvard Business Review

When participants from a high-performing division of a Fortune 100 company were polled during a Thunderbird webinar, fully 60% said their division was successful despite their leaders. This is harsh. And 35% of respondents in a broader study of all high-performing companies said the same thing. How does that happen?