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Remember that every successful idea has a life cycle, and a bad idea yesterday might be reformed under changing market forces as a good idea tomorrow. It’s December.
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There is no question that Tesla has been an inspired market leader, but all it takes is one visit to the showrooms of other luxury car companies and you start to see that high-end electric cars are on a fast path to becoming commodities under many brands.
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Naturally I have a few conditions: 1) Following the swearing-in, I must get an offer to become the President’s head speech writer at market rate with full Congressional retirement benefits when I am fired.
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We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. I’ve written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) so many times over the years it would be easy to think of them as simply a slogan I use, a catchphrase meant to pique your interest.
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One of your most promising managers has just led a two-year late-to-market death march on a brand extension that has launched and failed. You have lost market share, customer service complaints are up, and your own boss is pissed off. I don’t like performance reviews.
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He was Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998, the famous “ Intel Inside ” years when personal computing exploded from the hobby to the consumer market. Beware the Strategic Inflection Point – By the time a market has fully morphed at scale, it’s way too late to react.
Stop Dropping the Ball
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I received via snail mail a stock market overview newsletter from one of the largest financial services companies in the world.
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” If you think those are just broad, sweeping, generic statements of advice from the elevated dais, stop here and go read someone else’s reflection, or perhaps today’s stock market results.
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A must read for all creative executives.”. ? Christopher Keefe, Chief Marketing Officer, Omidyar Network. “In Endless Encores. Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. A Business Parable by Ken Goldstein. Published in 2015 by The Story Plant.
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Does the goal of that have to be the annihilation of those who currently populate a market segment? You don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an innovator. Becoming a startup CEO may not be your thing, but changing the world is always within your reach.
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If all we are worried about is whether the stock market is due for a correction, then we are wasting brain cycles on an inevitable head fake we cannot control, so why bother? I don’t know Elon Musk. I wish I did. This guy knows stuff. He’s the real deal.
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That “interactive movie” — as it was marketed — was a World War I flight simulation that followed the lives of the very first fighter pilots, trying to make combat sense of fragile biplanes curiously equipped with machine guns.
How Fragile Is a Brand?
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Andy Grove calls it the Strategic Inflection Point , the change in market forces that happens and you miss it, and then it’s too late to course correct.
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The lesson here is hardly isolated to politics , it is a story of marketing at large. Great products and services have no substitute, but as a former boss taught me long ago, good marketing helps bad product fail faster, and bad marketing can undermine the best of innovation.
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Choice 2: To overcome market forces and prevail over our competition! Is it the business leader’s job to respond to market forces and win market share from the competition?
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In the Executive Coaching Workshop I co-lead with John Vercelli for Coaches Training Institute , we discuss early in the curriculum the pervasive epidemic of Bad Boss Syndrome.
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I have already begun discussion of a follow-up book and may bend your ear on that, and of course I want to include you in the sales and marketing journey as my first book comes to market in paperback and eBook.
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Shameless, I know, but I am officially in the pull marketing business effective immediately. Daniel Steyer is a venture capitalist at the top of his game, looking to go out huge with the deal of a lifetime, but market forces have other plans.
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Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established.
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One of my final posts of 2012 memorialized the brands we lost last year, and inspired the question, how do so many companies so often and so badly miss the boat? It’s even more perplexing when they know where it’s docked, what time it leaves, and who the captain of that departing ship is.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2012
It becomes too much like a sporting event, the candidate is coached and the marketing team fuels the public rivalry. It has been over a week now since our Presidential Election, a good time to reflect.
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Credit markets need to flow. All of this underlies the free markets we cherish. Last week more than eighty corporate CEOs signed and published a manifesto, agreeing that our nation needs both spending cuts and revenue increases to move forward.
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As an investor, can you ever know for certain if that newfangled gizmo come to market is the real deal or a fad? But organic fair-market nine-grain soft crust, probably a fad.
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