If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… 12-minute video from 1994. Rough transcript follows.
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Mark Ritson on Marketing Planning
Mark Ritson wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Planning for marketing planning: 14 steps to an effective presentation. Continue reading “Mark Ritson on Marketing Planning”
Mark Ritson on the folly of demographic segmentation
Mark Ritson retweeted a Kantar post, showing survey results by generation, with roughly equal results across all ages. “This just proves (again) that demographic segmentation is balls. if we sliced the data by star sign it would almost be as useful.”
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40% of hires come from the referral pool
Dawn Graham gave a TEDx Talk titled Your Next Job Is One Conversation Away. Continue reading “40% of hires come from the referral pool”
Non-choices aren’t strategies
Praveen Vaidyanathan tweeted “Non-choices aren’t strategies.” Continue reading “Non-choices aren’t strategies”
What made Bill Bernbach great was he was a generalist not a specialist
Dave Trott wrote an article for Campaign titled Generalists Beat Specialists.
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Causal design patterns for data analysts
Emily Riederer wrote an article titled Causal design patterns for data analysts. Continue reading “Causal design patterns for data analysts”
Jack Welch on management consultants
Jack Welch spoke at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2006. During the Q&A he was asked, “How do you feel companies should use, engage management consultants?” Continue reading “Jack Welch on management consultants”
Deliberate and Emergent Strategies – Mintzberg and Waters
Henry Mintzberg and James A. Waters wrote a 16-page article for Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul. – Sep., 1985), titled Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent.
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Emergent Strategy Development for Organizations
Alexis Downs, Rita A Durant, and Adrian N. Carr wrote a 20-page article titled Emergent Strategy Development for Organizations, for the journal Emergence, Volume #5, Issue #2, June 2003. Continue reading “Emergent Strategy Development for Organizations”
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