February 2012
1 post
“Women are more likely than men to put their income back into their communities,...”
– Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses to Invest in Women - The Daily Beast
January 2012
2 posts
“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources...”
– What’s an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever | Inc.com
“technology waves are where the core value creation occurs in the technology...”
– Roger and Mike’s Hypernet Blog
September 2011
1 post
“Delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty,” note the authors of a recent...”
– Context Will Drive The Future Of Web Content Management - Forbes
June 2011
2 posts
“A good strategy does more than urge us forward toward a goal or vision; it...”
– Richard Rumelt
“a mobile strategy needs to adopt the DNA of the business behind it”
– Matt Anderson and Nick Buckner
March 2011
5 posts
“We learned that you can’t rely on anyone else to control and maintain your...”
– Andrew Mason
“To be really successful on a long-term basis, customer experience needs to be...”
– Adam Richardson
“the opinion of someone I trust is just as valuable as my own.”
– Rands In Repose
“Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet...”
– Chris Dixon
“planning is about making good decisions, applying focus, and enforcing...”
– Tim Berry
February 2011
2 posts
“The book itself (media) is not social—the interactions, communications, stories...”
– David Armano
“Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive...”
– John Wooden
January 2011
2 posts
“Retailers should provide consumers with the opportunity to practice frugality in...”
– The Dignity of Discount, Customer Service Article - Inc. Article
“Strategic coherence results from your ability to connect what you sell (your...”
– Paul Leinwand and Casare Mainardi
December 2010
2 posts
“build an initial user base with simple features and then quickly iterate to...”
– Chris Dixon
“The true measure of greatness is our capacity to navigate between our opposites...”
– Tony Schwartz
September 2010
1 post
“The leading edge of consumption is now moving from products and services to...”
– Creating value in the age of distributed capitalism - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Strategic Thinking
August 2010
5 posts
“companies don’t move aggressively enough to cannabilize their business, but...”
– Cannibalize Business Development by Popularizing your API - Shaival Shah’s Blog
“The most successful businesses understand the non-market environment in which...”
– Kevin Werbach
“Passion is when people discover the work that motivates them to achieve their...”
– John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
“Strategy should bring clarity to an organization; it should be a signpost for...”
– Tim Brown — Strategy by Design
“Changing the world is a quest. And that work is never done.”
– Dr. Steven Berglas
July 2010
4 posts
“A well-managed business pays high wages and sells at low prices. Its workmen...”
– Henry Ford
“Some would like to fantasize that the market is a pure Wild-West,...”
–
Joe Weisenthal, The Industries You Should Start a Business in Right Now
“Vision is useless unless it can direct action.”
– Stever Robbins
Don't Leave Communication out of Marketing - Dan... →
Remember: 1) Communication is king. 2) If you don’t want people to think of pink elephants, don’t use pink elephants in your campaign. 3) Everything matters. 4) A graphic designer is not a marketing department. 5) Distinguish yourself.
June 2010
1 post
“Punishing innovators for the values that make them creative is a clear path to...”
– Bruce Nussbaum, Harvard Business Review
May 2010
5 posts
“Dogmas of the quite past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...”
– Abraham Lincoln, December 1862, Second Annual Meeting of Congress
“But in my observation, narcissism in strategy-makers almost always represents an...”
– Walter Kiechel
“Listening online shouldn’t be a campaign or a project; it should be woven...”
– Debi Kleiman and Anat Keinan - HBR
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“We live in a digital world but we are analog creatures.”
– Omar Ahmad
2 tags
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