That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs Renown philosopher and leader of the English […]
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The company is over 100 years old. But you wouldn’t know it from its revenue curve. For nearly 30 years that line is flat to decreasing at an increasing rate. Same goes for profits. The only way the firm can generate a profit, and that being meager at best, is by performing some type of
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Life is like jelly beans in that what you see isn’t always what you get, but in the end the experience is well worth the risk. — Source Unknown Jelly Beans teach us a lot about commoditization, perceived value, and the necessity of strategy in the marketplace. Take price for instance. The leading brand
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Roy Disney once said, “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” While most organizations have a working values statement, the extent those values are actually believed, practiced, taught, and modeled by the entirety of the company has an enormous impact on its overall success. 64% of decision-makers cite shared values
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What do you do? Seems like a pretty easy question, right? Yet you know that’s not the case. More leaders agonize over answering this question than any other. And it doesn’t have to be so. There are a number of reasons why telling people what you do brings on anxiety, confusion, or downright befuddlement. At
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