We know you’ve got plenty of fuel for your fire, but you might be in need of a spark. That’s where this guide comes in handy. Our Business Expansion guide covers a wide array of topics all aimed at helping you discover new ways to expand and grow your business.
HBRSocial media are becoming dynamic arenas where you jockey against your competitors in real time.
Inc.How to locate deep pools of demand in a shrinking marketplace
HBRExperienced B2B salespeople have all sorts of tricks for uncovering buyers' intent during face-to-face meetings. Sellers can now apply that same ingenuity to web behavior.
Fast CompanyPartnerships within industries reinforce the idea that GREEN is not a competitive advantage, but a collective movement where we are all stakeholders in the outcome.
MITSloanMany companies believe in the concept of disruptive innovation but are skeptical about making it work. Here’s a blueprint to help managers understand if the conditions are right for disruption
KAndris Zoltners has led a revolution in understanding how sales forces operate. Here is a look back at his career.
BDon't assume that bigger is always better, says B-school professor Edward D. Hess. Steady improvement is much more crucial than expansion
IIn an economic recession, when should you open a new location?
Whether making an important presentation to potential clients or trying to motivate a room full of entry-level employees, your words carry weight at work.
When employees say they want their voices to be heard, they are really saying they want leaders who will not just hear them, but really listen to them.
Very few people know their own leadership style -- or strengths and weaknesses, for that matter. But that's a mistake.
Four simple, destructive behaviors that doom a marriage--and a business.
The responsibility of steering a company in the right direction can be extremely overwhelming, pushing you to the edge of a never-ending juggling act. Luckily, stress doesn’t have to be such a “soul-sucking, health-draining force,” claims work and family columnist Sue Shellenbarger in an...
Our ability to improve the ways we do things depends on defining and shaping our daily habits of mind and practice — our "standard work."
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, before you even brush your teeth? Is it checking the e-mail that’s flooded into your inbox overnight? Does the pull feel increasingly irresistible, even Pavlovian? Do you get so immersed in responding to other people’s agendas...
After announcing its deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash, Yahoo today started to lay out some of the details for how it intends to make use of the property while trying to stick to its promise “not to screw it up.”
Adelphic is announcing that Michael Collins, previously global CEO at WPP-owned mobile marketing agency Joule, has joined the mobile ad startup as its new chief executive.
Matt Mullenwag, CEO of WordPress points out his service saw more than 72,000 imported posts from Tumblr in one hour on Sunday night, following the hoopla around Tumblr’s acquisition.
In 2007, David Karp started a creative blogging platform, Tumblr. Now it's a behemoth, home to more than 105 million blogs, with more than 300 million monthly unique visits.
Bloomberg reports that CalPers, The California Public Employees' Retirement System, has voted to split the roles of Chairman and CEO at JP Morgan, stripping Jamie Dimon of his dual title.
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CEO.comEverything is negotiable. It’s one of those trade secrets every businessperson knows but won’t divulge. Because at the end of the day, those who bargain the best are the ones who come out on top. Learning to play the game to your advantage, to disagree without being disagreeable, is more than...
HBRHere are some journalistic strategies on telling a good story that apply to data visualizations as well.
IncThese three strategies will help ensure you're building a business based on reality, not wishful thinking.
CEO.comWhether you are developing a corporate strategic plan or setting your department's strategy, there is a direct correlation between the simplicity of a plan and the chances of adhering to it. Why stack the odds against yourself with an overly complex or unclear plan? A sound plan and a simple...
Fast CompanyWhat some of the most powerful CEOs in the country had to say about the questions that will keep any company on track.
FortuneJohnson's strategy must first be grounded in the simple fact that J.C. Penney customers are not the same as Apple's.
EntrepreneurJust like football, business is a game of inches where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
HBRA charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail.
CEO.comAt one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), Michael Porter’s competitive strategy...
ForbesThis is about how a legion of technologists and political advocates were able to help reelect a man whose last four years – let’s face it – was the political equivalent of Les Miserables.
Fast CompanyWhile everyone compares business to chess, only a few people can teach the game's most profound lessons. Here, Justin Moore, CEO of the cloud company Axcient, does just that.
SlateAmazon Coins is a brilliant strategy to give free money away to Kindle Fire owners.
HBRTo make strategy more interesting — and different from a budget — we need to break free of this obsession with planning. Strategy is not planning — it is the making of an integrated set of choices that collectively position the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage...
Open ForumBusiness strategy is something that eludes most people. But having the right strategy is often the difference between failure and success. Given the high rate of failure for small businesses, strategy is something that simply must be understood.
HBRBy adopting the "Everything is a case study" mindset and seeing the world through the Case Method third eye, you'll learn to filter out the disinformation that life throws at you and uncover startling insights.
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