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How to Influence People and Drive Change

Leapfrogging

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? This style of persuasion is effective in competitive sales environments or environments in which people are open to debate and collaboration. By UpBOARD. Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with?

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You can't burn data

Jeffrey Phillips

As the concept of digital transformation takes root, you may frequently hear comparisons between data and oil. This comparison was strong enough to lead Wired magazine to define data as the new oil in a magazine article some years ago. On the surface, this comparison seems to make some sense.

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At the digital transformation and innovation crossroads

Jeffrey Phillips

Most corporations are struggling to comprehend the changes in front of them, but at the same time are so fixated on short term thinking that they struggle to see the tsunami that is emerging just over the horizon. Change is being thrust upon them. The corporations didn't change. This is a dramatic business model change.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. It represents groundbreaking changes that redefine product use and market structures—think of the jump from film to digital photography.

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Competitive Strategy – 7 Ways to Avoid “Never and Always”

BrainZooming

They reported the team’s defensive coordinator, Bob Sutton, told them that when planning competitive strategy , “I want to stay out of ‘never’ and ‘always.’”. What fantastic competitive strategy advice to incorporate this time of year as you implement new strategies. Who Sees Predictable Competitive Strategy Moves?

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The Effect of Competition on Creativity

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay Daniel Gross has published an interesting NBER working paper titled, "Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production. Source: Pixabay Daniel Gross has published an interesting NBER working paper titled, "Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production. It's hard to do.

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Some students succeed at the expense of others. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Christensen Institute

Competition can be good. Social comparisons can help an individual realize certain things are possible that they would not have imagined otherwise. But when we shrink the definition of life success and only value people on a few uniform and narrow dimensions, competition is problematic.