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Excerpt from a post by Andy Nulman
No way around it.
No matter what your product, your business, your website, your service, your show, your TV network, your whatever, it needs to get off the ground at some point. These days, that “some point” is always sooner than later. Even the most strident of pre-launch tests cannot take [...]
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An original post by Alan Webber
In 1968 I went to Germany to connect with my brother, Mark.
He was finishing up a Fulbright scholarship in German and when his academic program was over we took his newly purchased VW bug and drove to Prague. The Czechs were celebrating an outbreak of freedom from the Soviet Union [...]
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Adapted from an original post by Andy Nulman
The combination of care and understanding is key not just to making the sale, but to delivering the product on a regular and high-level basis.
Examples are many, but a real timely one given the mega-opening of The Hunger Games film is how director Gary Ross landed the director [...]
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An original [lengthy but very worthwhile] article by GREGG THOMPSON
At some point in our careers most of us have said to ourselves: “I want it all. I want to run the whole business.” Our minds come alive with thoughts of the freedom, the rewards and the recognition that come with this role.
So, you finally do [...]
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An original post by Alan Webber
I spent yesterday at a meeting of a large company that plays an essential role in the world of telecom.
The company is more than 100 years old; it has always been at the forefront of providing and maintaining the best service in its segment of the industry. It is a [...]
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An original post from Alan Webber
I’m not a big fan of war.
But I’m a huge fan of the lessons in leadership that they teach at our military academies. Over the last few years I’ve had the benefit of getting to know Tom Kolditz from West Point, and to hear Tom give a number of very [...]
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An original post by Derek Sivers
What I’m about to tell you is one of the most interesting things I’ve read or heard in the last few months, and I know you’re going to love it, so please read to the end.
The Marshmallow Experiment
40 years ago, at a nursery school at Stanford University, psychology professor Walter [...]
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A very well done ‘Just Thinking’ post from John Caswell
Ah, sorry to bother you Mr. CEO, Sir…
Excuse me Mr. CEO, Sir? Um . . I know you’re busy, and important and stuff. I mean, running the business is very important and - ah – I hate to bother you, Sir. I will only take a minute. Ok, Sir? See, [...]
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An original post by Chris Brogan
One big risk with all of us is that these things we pursue are constant-feeling and nonstop, and in the effort to get where we think we need to go, we sometimes run faster and faster, because we sense we’re “almost there.” We run because we know that stumbling requires [...]
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Mintzberg’s Better Way to Do Corporate Strategy
An original post by Karl Moore and Phil LeNir
A few months ago I devoted my column to a discussion about the differences between Michael Porter’s concepts of “deliberate strategy” versus Henry Mintzberg’s “emergent strategy.” As much as I had relied on Porter to guide my own career at IBM, [...]
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