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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? In organsiations which suffer from the ostrich effect, it is not just that bad news is ignored. Two examples where leadership failed to take on board bad news are Volkswagen and Nokia. These organisations might then suffer from the Ostrich Effect.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. It’s a common cause of slow adoption speed, poor customer experience, retention/renewal difficulty (aka “churn”), and undelivered customer outcomes. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Navigating the Pitfalls of Google’s Performance Max for Online Advertising

Brunner

At Brunner, we manage paid search engine marketing (SEM) for clients of all types with significant monthly spends. We’ve seen strong performance from PMax, but poor performance, too — and without data insights to understand how and why. Yes, of course they are. More than two years later, reviews are mixed.

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The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide

Tullio Siragusa

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. But how does one lead effectively, ensuring team growth while also achieving the organization’s objectives? Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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The simple (and advanced) tools i use to run an online business on auto-pilot

Idea to Value

This requires you actually spending the time figuring out what customers would find valuable enough to pay for, and then execute and develop, test and launch that. They make it incredibly easy and fast to develop pages specifically designed to convince someone to give you their email address, or even high-converting sales pages.

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The Importance of Listening When Developing a Product Roadmap

Anaqua

When it comes to product strategy and development at Anaqua, the key word is LISTEN. From this, we were able to develop a series of significant enhancements being introduced over the course of the year to the platform. The product roadmap process at Anaqua is always iterative.

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