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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past. But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa. Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. Freed from old assumptions, companies will orient their talent strategies around determining the right mix of internal and external capabilities.

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Three Areas for Action by Wealth Managers

BCG

For 14 years, BCG has conducted a proprietary benchmarking survey of wealth management providers from all over the world, running the spectrum from small boutiques to the world’s largest wealth managers—and covering multiple business models, from onshore to offshore and from banking to brokerage. See Exhibit 1.).

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people?

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Case for Gold vs. the Case for Treasuries; Is Bill Gross Talking His Book or Talking Reality?

MishTalk

Federal Reserve''s benchmark short-term borrowing rate - will rise by one percentage point by late 2015. Right now the market (and the Fed forecasts) expects fed funds to be 1 percent higher by late 2015 and 1 percent higher still by December 2016. Bet against that," he wrote in the letter entitled " Survival of the Fittest? ".

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

The fact that rates were cut, even though many reformers within the administration were very much opposed, exemplifies the challenges that Beijing will face in 2015. We are going to see this argument replayed many times in 2015. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. It is also the foundation on which can be built new business strategies that are able to move and evolve at the pace of consumers and markets.