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Introduction The term ‘Business Plan’ gets thrown around almost as much as the term ‘Innovation’. Everyone has a fair idea of what it is yet they think it’s something that they can easily accomplish without much effort or thorough research. You can clearly see this with the amount of books, articles, blogs, templates and other resources [ READ MORE ]
I read about these in Dale Carnigie’s ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. I thought I should track them down and share them here. 1. Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game. 2. Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality admiring the one and despising the other. 3. Teach me neither to [ READ MORE ]
Determining who to hire is one of, if not the, most important things you’ll do as a business owner. But what happens if you put your job listing out there and nobody qualified responds? Red5, a video game development company came up with an amazing strategy to recruit the best in the business. Check it out [ READ MORE ]
Very interesting talk about the world of advertising. Source: TED [ READ MORE ]
Was Obama’s award too early, or just good Management? Michael Watkins Friday October 9, 2009 Harvard Business Publishing Beyond the obvious snub to the Bush Administration, what was the Nobel Committee’s goal in awarding President Obama the Peace Prize? Certainly this is not an “A” for accomplishment, as it will take years, if not decades, to discern whether the [ READ MORE ]
Given your past, how should you operate in the future? “Berlin’s Jewish memorial halted after firm linked with supply of Nazi gas” Luke Harding in Berlin Monday October 27, 2003 The Guardian A Holocaust memorial in Berlin to Europe’s 6 million murdered Jews was at the centre of huge embarrassment last night after it emerged that one of its [ READ MORE ]
1. Select Distributors – don’t let them select you 2. Look for distributors capable of developing markets, rather than those with a few obvious customer contacts 3. Treat the distributors as long term partners, not temporary market entry vehicles 4. Support market entry by committing money, managers and proven marketing ideas 5. From the start, maintain control over marketing [ READ MORE ]
The Formula for Change was created by Richard Beckhard and David Gleicher and is sometimes called Gleicher’s Formula. This formula provides a model to assess the relative strengths affecting the likely success or otherwise of organisational change programs. D x V x F > R Three factors must be present for meaningful organizational change to take place. [ READ MORE ]
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt. [ READ MORE ]
This is a transcript of an interview Charlie Rose has with Nicholas Taleb on his book, The Black Swan. NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB: In the book, I have the story of a turkey that is fed for 1,000 days by a butcher, and every day confirms to the turkey and the turkey’s economics department and the turkey’s risk management department and the turkey’s [ READ MORE ]