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January 12, 2023January 11, 2023 andreweverett360

The Elements of Value: delivering what consumers want

Eric Almquist, John Senior, and Nicolas Bloch (colleagues at Bain & Company) wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Elements of Value: Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want (September 2016).

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January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 andreweverett360

Productivity at the Systems Level

Daniel Markovitz wote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Productivity Is About Your Systems, Not Your People (January 05, 2021).   

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January 9, 2023 andreweverett360

What the Past Says About the Future of Ad Tech

Martin Kihn wrote an article titled What the Past Says About the Future of Ad Tech (Jan 4, 2023). Kihn is SVP Strategy, Marketing Cloud at Salesforce.

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January 5, 2023 andreweverett360

FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses

Dave Michaels wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers (January 5, 2023).

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January 4, 2023 andreweverett360

McKinsey: marketing trends in 1966

McKinsey Quarterly published an article titled The changing face of marketing written in 1966 by John D. Louth, a principal in McKinsey’s San Francisco office. Louth discusses six trends he believes “will be felt by almost every business.”

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January 2, 2023 andreweverett360

Inflation and Consumer Behavior

Professor Ravi Dhar addresses the question How Does Inflation Change Consumer Behavior? for Yale Insights (August 22, 2022).

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December 28, 2022 andreweverett360

The way in which problems are communicated to us impacts our ability to solve them (visual vs verbal)

Nikola Spadina wrote an article  titled Primed to fail: How cognitive biases undermine your creativity (April 20, 2021).

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December 27, 2022 andreweverett360

Henry Mintzberg: Destructive productivity

Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post titled Productive and Destructive Productivity (26 March 2015).

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December 26, 2022 andreweverett360

Henry Mintzberg: Managers not MBAs

Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post titled MBAs as CEOs: Some troubling evidence (22 February 2017).

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December 18, 2022December 17, 2022 andreweverett360

The Best Way To Decide Who Gets Promoted

Roger Dooley wrote an article for Forbes titled Tom Peters: The Best Way To Decide Who Gets Promoted, based on his interview with the famous author.

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