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I’m frequently asked for career management advice. Most of the questions are “I don’t know what my next career move should be. How do I take my next career step?” I always reply, “Identify what …
In their weekly BusinessWeek podcast, Jack & Suzy Welch discuss the MBA’s job search during these are unprecedented times. MBAs have three options: they can settle and learn to love it, they can go a …
The Classic Five Competitive Forces Framework Backgrounder
Need to update the competitive analysis of your industry? Check out the Harvard Business Video IdeaCast interview with Michael Porter on “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy.” Porter …
Paul Michelman, Harvard Business Publishing talks with Rita McGrath, coauthor of Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity. In this podcast, McGrath discusses each of the four steps to help executives …
Practical CI Experience Over Time
But how do you collect competitive information? How does it turn into “intelligence?” As a product marketing manager, product manager, and VP of Marketing and Sales Operations, I’ve had to create …
The 20/80 Principle of Performance.
We’ve all read about this principle. According to James Citrin and Richard Smith’s book Strategic Innovation: New Game Strategies for Competitive Advantage, this principle’s lesson is simple, “The quality of your …
The Smart Lemming recommends these INSEAD Knowledgecasts (podcasts) on Leadership, Management, and Women in Business:
Leadership
INSEAD Knowledgecast n°23: Putting Leaders on the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries
INSEAD Knowledgecast n°25:The Experience Trap with Kishore Sengupta and …
Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: March 1, 2010 (Episode 4) [8:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe Smart Lemming Rundown is a shortcut to career management success. I explain how these three recommended business books help you learn the new science of rapid change by thinking a little while changing a lot, overcome the conflict between your rational mind and your emotional mind to accomplish transformational change as a person, worker, manager, or leader, and change your old approach to innovation to become a disruptive innovator.
What it is: The Levity Effect – Why It Pays to Lighten Up
What it’s about: The Levity Effect uses science to reveal how of fun and humor in work drives business results.
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You’re managing a product or service. Can you articulate the compelling reason your customers should buy the product or service? What’s the value proposition? You’re in marketing and have to write key messaging for everything, …
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