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August 24, 2018
How Businesses Can Keep Up In A Rapidly Changing World
To gain any groundbreaking insights into marketing, consumer psychology, popular art, or even a mobile app’s user interface, an innovator is still necessary to synthesize human experience, newspaper articles, and stories about how people have…
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July 24, 2018
The Revolutionary Approach Honda Took to Rise Above Competition
A bold decision always looks good—until it is wrong. To facilitate evidence-based decision-making, managers must carry out frequent experimentation to diminish the dark space of ignorance and to arrive at conclusions with the required level…
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July 10, 2018
Why Business Leaders Need to Embrace Artificial Intelligence
The upshot is that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive computing can exert either a complementary effect or substitutional pressure. But that outcome is not predetermined.
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July 2, 2018
These Dueling Piano Companies Can Teach Business Leaders How To Handle Copycats
When industry knowledge matures, copycats always catch up. Because latecomers often inherit a lower cost structure without the legacy assets, they exert competitive pressure on industry pioneers. That’s why Steinway can’t compete against Yamaha, even…
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June 25, 2018
The One Decision P&G Made That Transformed Their Industry Forever
When the first boxes of P&G’s Tide detergent went on sale in 1946, it was the first synthetic detergent that could deep-clean clothing—removing mud, grass, and mustard stains “without making colors dull or dingy.”
Before…
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June 19, 2018
Steve Jobs Used This Trick To Time Apple’s Strategic Moves Perfectly
To come up with an integrated strategy, every effective leader must begin with the big questions: What world am I living in? What are the biggest trends in this world? How do I align my…
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June 12, 2018
How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
Outlasting competition is difficult. Doing so over decades or a century often seems impossible. Since the great Industrial Revolution, every country that has become rich started by copying others: the French copied the British, the Americans copied the Germans, and the Japanese pretty much-copied everybody else.
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June 9, 2018
Trade wars are good? Not for the U.S. or Trump
The public should know this by now; whenever the U.S. administration is in deadlock at home, it has historically looked for sideshows abroad, to create an external crisis, a shifting backdrop so for the public to focus on a new dramatic event.
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June 8, 2018
How Trump Understands China’s ZTE Better Than Congress Does
The U.S. Congress was not impressed. They were not impressed by the latest lift on ZTE ’s ban from buying American technologies, even with strings attached.
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May 31, 2018
GDPR isn’t enough to protect us in an age of smart algorithms
Europe’s new privacy law comes with teeth. Within hours of the General Data Protection Law (GDPR) coming into effect, an Austrian privacy campaigner used the new EU legislation to file a legal complaint against Facebook…
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