Book Review by Taylor Berrett Can you master the business world the same way a chess grandmaster develops total control over the chess board? According to Patrick Bet-David and his book, Your Next Five Moves:
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Use ‘Futuring’ to Deal with Hyperchange
Book Review by Taylor Berrett If you’re most intrigued by How to Future: Leading and Sense-Making in an Age of Hyperchange thanks to its high-profile authors, you’re not alone— and you’re certainly justified. Both Scott
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Companies Are Running Experiments on Millions of Users Every Year. What Are the Ethical Implications?
by Stefan Thomke Leading companies – including Microsoft, Amazon, Booking.com, Facebook and Google – each conduct more than ten thousand online controlled experiments annually, which individually engage millions of users. Startups and companies without digital
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Measure Your Strategic Progress
by Margaret Reynolds How do you monitor and measure the progress of your strategic initiatives and projects? Remember that confidence in decision making comes from having reliable data, and that includes data that keeps you
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Connected Strategy by Nicolaj Siggelkow & Christian Terwiesch
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer Interactions between companies and their customers have historically been episodic in nature. A customer identifies an unmet need (either independently or through persuasive marketing) and then proceeds to browse for
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Why Businesses Only Have Price to Compete On
by Matthew Pollard Many businesses feel as though the only way to obtain a competitive edge over their competition is through price. This conclusion, while seemingly obvious, in actuality couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Making Big Decisions Better
How to Set and Simplify Business Strategy With the escalating speed of change, short attention spans, wide range of stated and unstated stakeholder needs, and the insatiable urge to react rather than thoughtfully respond, we
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Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results
There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But once you begin to rely on past achievements or get stuck in outdated thinking and practices that no longer work, you need to take a
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Anticipate, Adapt, Listen
by Amy Radin A few weeks ago, the big NYC headline was Amazon’s decision to establish a Queens headquarters. What a difference a decade makes. During my days as a Long Island City-based Citibanker, friends
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4 Key Things You Need to Be Successful as a Hospitality Business
by Amy Collett The hospitality industry is one that holds an enduring appeal for entrepreneurs. In fact, according to statistics by the US Small Business Administration, over 60 percent of the food and accommodation sector
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5 Steps to Making a Blue Ocean Shift
W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne’s latest book, Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing –– Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth, is a direct response to those companies that found the transition from
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We will all face competitors during our lifetime. If you pursue your most ambitious plans and dreams, you’ll encounter more than most, and they must never be underestimated. There’s an arrogant complacency in thinking your
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Manage Resistance and Drama You may think the real drama at home is about the fight you had with your spouse, but it’s really about all the times you avoided having the difficult conversation, failing
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