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The Ownership Quotient
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Lanham Napier is CEO of Rackspace Hosting, based in San Antonio, Texas. Napier is obsessed with the development of customer owners, even though he doesn't use the term. His organization, which...
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Avatar-Based Marketing
June 12, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Companies spend large sums trying to segment, reach, and influence potential customers. They should think about targeting those customers' online alter egos, as well. Take a minute - go ahead,...
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Envy At Work
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Comparing yourself with successful coworkers can be motivating, but it can also trigger envy. The authors' research suggests that such feelings may cause real damage, both to your own career and...
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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that...
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Finding And Grooming Breakthrough Innovators
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
Just 5% - 10% of your high-potential managers have the skills to become breakthrough innovators. If you don't find and groom these rarities, some other company will mastermind the next big thing....
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Putting The Service- Profit Chain To Work
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
What drives growth and profitability in a service business? Highly satisfied customers. And to keep those customers profitable, you need to manage all the aspects of your operation that affect...
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Staple Yourself To An Order
March 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
If one is like most managers, and take pride on providing breakthrough products and services to the customers. But if one can't give customers what they really want-quick, accurate processing of...
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Imitation Is More Valuable Than Innovation
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Imitation is underappreciated. It can be more important to business growth than innovation is. Imitation is not mindless repetition; It's and intelligent search for cause and effect. The author...
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Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not The Usual Suspects
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge intensive businesses; local...
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Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How many people struggle hard every day to uphold obligations to the bosses, families and communities even as the quality of the lives erodes? And how many feel too overwhelmed to examine the...
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Why Inside Outsiders Are The Key To Succession
January 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
A central challenge facing most companies today is picking their next CEO. Even if a company's CEO has only recently been installed, and even if he or she seems to be doing an outstanding job, the...
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Alignment: Using The Balanced Scorecard To Create Corporation Synergies
January 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
Many corporations are like an uncoordinated shell. They consist of wonderful business units, each populated by highly trained, experienced, and motivated executives. But the efforts of the...
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Winning Your Employees' Trust
August 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Most employees don't trust their leaders. Stress and divisiveness prevail. Performance erodes and talented workers head for motivating environment. Contrast that scene with one in which employees...
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The Hard Work Of Being A Soft Manager
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The soft management enables you to build credibility with the people your company needs most to succeed. Soft management hinges on candor, sensitivity, and the willingness to suffer painful...
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Marketing Malpractice: The Cause And The Cure
March 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on...
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Assess Your Own Performance As A Leader
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
When top executives stumble, they risk taking their companies down with them. How can you stay steady on your feet so you keep delivering high-quality leadership? Feedback. But getting feedback on...
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Extend Profits, Not Product Lines
March 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Too many companies pump out new product versions to boost sales and expand market share quickly and cheaply. But these short-term gains often come at the expense of long-term profits. For one...
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When Professionals Have To Lead
September 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Jeff Gardner (not his real name), a new managing partner of a Medium-sized, rapidly growing Seattle consulting firm, is multi-tasking late into the night. While he puts the final touches on a new...
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High Performance With High Integrity
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
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To Succeed In The Long Term, Focus On The Middle Term
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Why do so many promising ventures fail? After transforming hot ideas into fledgling businesses, some companies drop them when executives realize they won't pay off quickly. In other firms,...
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Your Leadership Legacy
October 4, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If You Are A Leader of a company, a department, a division, or any group of individuals you will leave a leadership legacy. It won't be a record of how you behaved or a report card of your...
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Serve Your Customers - Efficiently And Profitably
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
You know the adages: "The customer comes first.""The customer's always right." These mantras have merit. Fail to give your customers exactly what they want and you risk seeing them march off to...
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The Wisdom Of Deliberate Mistakes
May 19, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes - yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth...
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On Competition
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. Often, however, managers define competition too narrowly, as if it occurred only among today's direct competitors....
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Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
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The Innovator's Guide To Growth
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trees don't grow to the sky forever." With that sentence, the CEO of a multibillion dollar media company urged a cross-functional group of senior managers to develop innovative ideas. It was 2005....
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Making Diversity A Business Advantage
March 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today, the smartest organizations in the world are recognizing that their diversity can be a source of competitive strength. Instead of merely monitoring minority representation within the ranks a...
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Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Fake. Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of those words to describe what you sell or how you sell it? That is exactly how more and more consumers view what...
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Is Your Growth Strategy Flying Blind?
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Your company's best growth opportunities may be hidden by the big picture. To find those opportunities, look at markets and performance under a microscope. For example, a large industrial company...
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Open Business Models: How To Thrive In The New Innovation Landscape
October 17, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Former baseball catcher Yogi Berra liked to observe that "the future isn't what it used to be." This same general pessimism has been voiced about innovation in the United States and Europe, even...
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Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Beginning in 2002 an ad agency by the name of McKinney & Silver rolled out a slogan that caught on fast. Hired to persuade people in the market for premium cars that Audi cars were better than...
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Managing Up: Expert Solution To Everyday Challenges
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Managing up is a conscious approach to working with your manager toward mutually agreed-upon goals that are in the best interests of you, your boss, and your organization. It is not mere political...
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The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy To Operations For Competitive Advantage
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Managing Strategy Differs from managing operations. But both are vital, and need to be integrated. As strategy authority Michael Porter has noted, "Operational effectiveness and strategy are both...
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Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
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When You Shouldn't Go Global
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Globalization promises substantial advantages like new growth and scale. For some companies, it's paid off handsomely. But global mania has also blinded many firms to a hard truth: global...
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When To Walk Away From A Deal
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Is your company prone to 'Deal fever - getting so excited while pursuing acquisitions that it skimps on due diligence? Caught up in the thrill of the chase, many firms use due diligence to justify...
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The Real Reason People Won't Change
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Tearing out the managerial hair over employees who just won't change - especially the ones who are clearly smart, skilled, and deeply committed to the company and their plans for improvement?...
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Predicting Your Competitor's Reaction
March 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Considering launching a new product? Making a price change? Implementing some other strategic move? If so, one needs to know how the toughest competitors might respond. But most competitive...
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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy
May 30, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Does It Feel As If the employees in the company are working harder and harder, but they are still losing ground? You've got great people, you invest carefully, and you believe you have the right...
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How Local Companies Keep Multinationals At Bay
February 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
If you're setting out to compete in rapidly developing economies, beware: Smart domestic enterprises are staving off the challenge from global market leaders. And they're seizing new opportunities...
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How Companies Get Smarter
July 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Companies are a lot like children - none of them is born knowing all that it needs to know, and relatively few are born really smart. Most acquire intelligence by learning basic tasks and skills,...
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
March 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Consider the conventional activity-based cost (ABC) system used at a large financial services firm several years ago. The system attempted to measure product cost and customer profitability each...
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Teaming Up To Crack Innovation And Enterprise Integration
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Your company is continuously creating new generations of products, services, and business processes. These innovations require seamless collaboration across your firm's different parts. But in...
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The Forgotten Strategy
February 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most of modern global strategy focuses on minimizing differences between countries. Perhaps it's time to dust off approaches that exploit those differences as well. Multinationals' global...
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Uncovering Hidden Value In A Midsize Manufacturing Company
March 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
If you want to grow your business by 15% to 20% per year, where do you begin? Do you ask what new business you should be in? Do you adopt a novel strategic framework, make a big acquisition, and...
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Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 8596-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For...
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How Risky Is Your Company?
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Success brings your company profits, growth, and unbounded optimism. It can also blind you to risks that creep in with success. For example, a fast-growing firm accelerates hiring. Soon new,...
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Leadership That Gets Results
August 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into...
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Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders To Drive Performance And Build Lasting Value
January 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the Pursuit of Leadership, thousands of books and articles have been published. So why one more? This book focuses on what is called the leadership brand and offers two insights into how to in...
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How To Market In A Downturn
March 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
No two recessions are alike, so you're in poorly charted waters every time. How should you market in this downturn? Resegment consumers according to their emotional responses to the recession:...
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The Right Way To Manage Unprofitable Customers
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Some of the customers aren't paying their bills. Others are so high-maintenance that the cost of serving them is eroding the profits. What to do? For many companies, the answer is simple: Show...
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Who's Bringing You Hot Ideas (And How Are You Responding)?
February 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
Your company's product innovations quickly lose their competitive value, as rivals copy them. So how will one keep their firm at the head of the pack? Nurture those unsung heroes in the...
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Eager Sellers And Stony Buyers
May 19, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite billions invested in innovation, 40% to 90% of new products fail. Consider TiVo's digital video recorder. Though it has garnered rave reviews from industry experts and users since the late...
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Dragons At Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition
April 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Forget the idea that the rise of Chinese competitors simply means cheap, low-quality imitations flooding world markets. Chinese companies are starting to disrupt global competition by breaking the...
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Delegating Work: Expert Solution To Everyday Challenges
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
To Master The Basics of delegating, let's start by exploring its purpose and benefits as well as common concerns that managers have about the subject. The following sections address each of these...
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Transforming Giants
December 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
To compete in the global economy, multinational companies must respond quickly and innovatively to opportunities and challenges wherever they arise. But many big businesses are saddled with vast...
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Breaking Out Of The Innovation Box
May 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the late-1990s economic boom, corporations embarked on an innovation binge - enthusiastically transforming hot ideas and technologies into commercial opportunities. But when the economy cooled,...
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Reinventing Your Business Model
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
When Apple introduced the iPod, it did something far smarter than wrap a good technology in a snazzy design. It wrapped a good technology in a great business model. Combining hardware, software,...
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How Local Companies Keep Multinationals At Bay
February 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
If you're setting out to compete in rapidly developing economies, beware: Smart domestic enterprises are staving off the challenge from global market leaders. And they're seizing new opportunities...
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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy
May 30, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Does It Feel As If the employees in the company are working harder and harder, but they are still losing ground? You've got great people, you invest carefully, and you believe you have the right...
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Predicting Your Competitor's Reaction
March 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Considering launching a new product? Making a price change? Implementing some other strategic move? If so, one needs to know how the toughest competitors might respond. But most competitive...
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White Papers
The Real Reason People Won't Change
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Tearing out the managerial hair over employees who just won't change - especially the ones who are clearly smart, skilled, and deeply committed to the company and their plans for improvement?...
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When To Walk Away From A Deal
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Is your company prone to 'Deal fever - getting so excited while pursuing acquisitions that it skimps on due diligence? Caught up in the thrill of the chase, many firms use due diligence to justify...
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White Papers
When You Shouldn't Go Global
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Globalization promises substantial advantages like new growth and scale. For some companies, it's paid off handsomely. But global mania has also blinded many firms to a hard truth: global...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy To Operations For Competitive Advantage
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Managing Strategy Differs from managing operations. But both are vital, and need to be integrated. As strategy authority Michael Porter has noted, "Operational effectiveness and strategy are both...
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White Papers
Managing Up: Expert Solution To Everyday Challenges
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Managing up is a conscious approach to working with your manager toward mutually agreed-upon goals that are in the best interests of you, your boss, and your organization. It is not mere political...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Beginning in 2002 an ad agency by the name of McKinney & Silver rolled out a slogan that caught on fast. Hired to persuade people in the market for premium cars that Audi cars were better than...
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Open Business Models: How To Thrive In The New Innovation Landscape
October 17, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Former baseball catcher Yogi Berra liked to observe that "the future isn't what it used to be." This same general pessimism has been voiced about innovation in the United States and Europe, even...
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Is Your Growth Strategy Flying Blind?
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Your company's best growth opportunities may be hidden by the big picture. To find those opportunities, look at markets and performance under a microscope. For example, a large industrial company...
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Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want
August 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Fake. Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of those words to describe what you sell or how you sell it? That is exactly how more and more consumers view what...
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Making Diversity A Business Advantage
March 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today, the smartest organizations in the world are recognizing that their diversity can be a source of competitive strength. Instead of merely monitoring minority representation within the ranks a...
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The Innovator's Guide To Growth
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trees don't grow to the sky forever." With that sentence, the CEO of a multibillion dollar media company urged a cross-functional group of senior managers to develop innovative ideas. It was 2005....
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Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But...
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On Competition
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. Often, however, managers define competition too narrowly, as if it occurred only among today's direct competitors....
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The Wisdom Of Deliberate Mistakes
May 19, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes - yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth...
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Serve Your Customers - Efficiently And Profitably
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
You know the adages: "The customer comes first.""The customer's always right." These mantras have merit. Fail to give your customers exactly what they want and you risk seeing them march off to...
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Your Leadership Legacy
October 4, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If You Are A Leader of a company, a department, a division, or any group of individuals you will leave a leadership legacy. It won't be a record of how you behaved or a report card of your...
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White Papers
To Succeed In The Long Term, Focus On The Middle Term
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Why do so many promising ventures fail? After transforming hot ideas into fledgling businesses, some companies drop them when executives realize they won't pay off quickly. In other firms,...
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High Performance With High Integrity
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an era characterized by accelerating change, economic dislocation, and - all too often - highly visible scandals, a key question has become more and more pressing. It's a question that is posed...
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