Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Look through any fashion magazine and you''ll quickly come to understand that fashion is the act of making a costume. Most marketing, then, is costume work, not the search for the most efficient function. No, it''s a costume. And costumes are an artifice designed to remind us of something else. So packaging is a costume.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

In our experience in initiatives to improve the quality, enhance experience, and decrease the cost of health care in the Seattle and Portland, Oregon markets, the best way to reach accord on a single definition of quality is to engage multiple providers and employers in a collaborative effort supported by medical evidence.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 20, 2017

We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. Forecast by Ahmad Munawar Forecast is a show about marketing for professional services leaders. We publish two episodes per week: a core marketing lesson on Mondays and an expert interview on Thursday.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). In New York, Bain is located at 1114 Avenue of the Americas on the 43rd Floor.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Entire industries (like fashion) are built on bringing people something that changes the way they interact with themselves and the world. It doesn’t matter whether you believe the car is running more efficiently–it either is or it isn’t, and it isn’t.

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 18, 2017

One important aspect of your organization’s successful crisis management, is being able to reach out to, and communicate with, all impacted and relevant stakeholders, in a timely and efficient fashion. Typically, each department owns the relationships with one or more of the organization’s stakeholder groups.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Research by my co-authors and myself has found that firms improving their performance on industry-specific, material ESG issues outperform their competitors , and firms disclosing more information on industry-specific material ESG issues exhibit more informative stock prices and as a result more efficient pricing of risks and opportunities.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. Not only are the two activities separate, but another person sits in between them, meaning it’s not necessarily any more efficient for one person to do both things.).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. market for inconsistent care delivery by providers and dysfunctional payment by health plans. It is a costly mistake.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

People who were co-located bristled at the idea of having to go through the extra steps of running an efficient distributed meeting when only one or two people were not in the room with them. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. That meant creating regional offices.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

They wanted to switch the basis of its salesforce compensation from raw results to performance relative to the potential of each salesperson’s market. But it reduced the compensation of salespeople who were less efficient but ultimately more valuable—causing them to defect to competitors.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

Colorado and Washington are creating a recreational market in which local authorities will oversee growing, distribution and marketing -- all of it legal -- for people to get high just for the fun of it. The market is huge: from $1.4 The market is huge: from $1.4 How much hemp is necessary to meet current US energy needs?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. Branding and marketing. Westend61/Getty Images. Sales force.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Over time, they shifted gears, no longer competing on whether or not their luggage was the most useful, or their saddles the most efficient. The challenge they face, the challenge you''ll face if you choose to try to combine function with the top of the market, is that eventually, these two paths diverge. It''s hard to do both.).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What are our markets? On the other hand, necessary work — tasks that you have to do on par with anyone else, or in compliance with regulatory requirements — should be organized for maximum efficiency. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Who is our customer?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Brand-Building and Customer Connection.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. People can shop more efficiently online and therefore don’t need to go to as many stores to find what they want.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This approach to structured experimentation from the entrepreneur’s perspective, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup with concrete steps for how to de-risk the venture in the most capital efficient way , has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Customer comments are also helpful for retailers themselves to understand their market better – fashion chain Zara for instance has been tweaking products in response to customer reviews by sending the comments straight to the manufacturer. Payment Apps. Optimising the in store experience. Social media incentives.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. The third and final nail on the coffin was that they didn’t read their market right – a fatal change management mistake. The company failed on multiple fronts. What do you think?

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MishTalk

JULY 18, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets reiterates that view in regards to credit expansion and GDP growth. When a country has “too much” debt, market perceptions of its deteriorating creditworthiness cause agents to change their behavior in ways that reduce growth to less than what it would have been without the debt.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I believe the Fed and BoE have learned practically nothing from their previous mistakes and we are heading down exactly the same road to catastrophe as the financial markets creak and groan under the strain of QE-inspired, excess valuations. You, the Bond Market or Itself? And it’s scary as hell. " Reader John, offered these comments.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2016

  Some simple principles: Software can change faster than hardware, which means that in changing markets, bet on software. It's tempting to treat the user interface as a piece of fashion, some bling, a sort of jewelry. It means upending the status quo and creating something new.  If you can, make software.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

Holland & Barrett - The Island Pacific Speciality Retailer of the Year – In the ever increasing market of health food, Holland & Barrett has not been left behind but is continuing to grow and even expand overseas. CEO Ben Lewis commented that the store plays to the 'stylish, fun and confident attitude' of the brand.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This game evaluates the candidate’s ability to solve problems efficiently and think critically. This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. How do you create the greatest stock market value while taking the least risk? So a bottom-up approach works. A top-down approach also works.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Today here is a vast variety of anti-depressants, stimulants, ''mood stabilizers'', anxiolytics and anti-psychotic drugs on the market that produce billions in profits for the pharmaceutical industry. The ''Dread Pirate'' apparently believed in non-coerced free markets, which he cited as a major reason to open his online drug bazaar.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It helps make their businesses more efficient and more profitable. Since the Communications Act of 1934 , networks in the United States have been required to operate in a nondiscriminatory fashion (see here and here ). As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S. households lack a choice of broadband provider.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The ‘workers’ (like myself) wore blue overalls; the foremen had brown coats; the supervisors were kitted out in white; the management sported double-breasted suits (the fashion at that time). This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’. and 90%+ will tell you ‘Advertising’, ‘Marketing’ & ‘R&D’.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Unterreiner said AI-generated suggestions have an 80% usage rate by associates, and with AI the company has seen a 15% rise in CSAT as associate efficiency has doubled. Assurant’s also using AI to generate associate responses and post-call summaries, with great success.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. It was previously sold as Fastin from King Pharmaceuticals for SmithKline Beecham, however in 1998 it was removed from the market. The FDA did not ask manufacturers to remove phentermine from the market. But we have faith in providing gigantic help at a small affordable rate.

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