More a matter of pride than sound business thinking, Ford propped up the Taurus with massive discounts to fleet buyers.
More than one hundred years after Keats, Edwards Deming set out to transform business thinking, anticipating much of the current worldview regarding innovation.
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Taking corporate social responsibility to the next level means having the conviction to stand for a social purpose, even if that means walking away from conventional business thinking.
Often, tech debt takes a backseat to short-term business thinking.
In traditional business thinking, any adjacency is a risk.
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And you know what happens is that women go into this business thinking that they can do this to make ends meet, but the people that they're dealing are in this business to make money.
If you are a business user thinking of upgrading to Windows 8, I would be very very careful.
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Cluetrain started business people thinking about the internet as a marketplace and rethinking the way they marketed goods through traditional marketing and advertising.
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What were those business leaders thinking at the time?
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For all the progress humankind has made in the last century, when it comes to assessing risk, we go about our business with thinking apparatus still largely custom-made for Stone Age life on the African savannah.
Come January, as soon as the Christmas trees are taken down and the winter sales flood the shops, the world of business starts thinking about the World Economic Forum -- better known as Davos.
Often business owners are fooled into thinking that just because business development officers like them, they are getting the loan of their dreams.
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As much as we would like the business sponsors to align their thinking of legacy code with business assurance, it is equally important that the IT stakeholders continually seek ways to drive and deliver better value out of their IT assets.
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And there is nothing more important as a business owner than thinking clearly and making smart decisions.
We are a forward thinking business, always looking for new and exciting opportunities to give our customers extraordinary shopping experiences.
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It is good that business schools are thinking about EQ measures, says Daniel Goleman, a leading psychologist in the field of emotional-intelligence.
Hopefully, Armstrong and the person or business you are thinking of can look back on their trust breach as a crucible of leadership.
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Small-business experts say it isn't surprising that some business owners are thinking of splitting their firms or taking other steps to eschew the health-care overhaul due to the associated costs and regulatory burdens.
Can my business function without my thinking about it 100% of the time?
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In business, flawed analytical thinking tends to manifest itself, he said, in a focus on growth over development, or bigger over better.
As for Thiel, his forward thinking in business and philanthropy, specifically is current efforts around disrupting education is a model for future philanthropy.
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Pink, who gave business a blueprint for thinking creatively in A Whole New Mind, has now turned his attention to sales, and his book is vastly entertaining and informative.
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And to highlight why CIOs today have to focus on strategic thinking and business outcomes or risk being reassigned to the role of director of IT infrastructure, here are several of those insightful points from the McKinsey article along with my comments on each.
The bankruptcy of such thinking in business has resulted in the emergence of the Creative Economy with a different kind of leadership and management based on treating employees and partners as thinking, feeling creative human beings and customers as people who deserve to be delighted.
"We're all used to jumping into projects and doing, doing, doing, but we can't fix everything in a month -- so we have to be teachers and introduce clients to new ways of thinking about business that they can use on their own, " says Jennifer Vickery, who lives in New York and edits IBM's employee intranet.
To Becher, baseball and Olympic sailing are good analogies for thinking differently about business.
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Most of all, get in the habit of stimulating your mind by not thinking about your business.
Business leaders are better off thinking creatively about how to empower people by empowering their own businesses.
If impact investors do take up this question, they will find themselves having to push beyond business-as-usual thinking.
Most agencies, however, mistakenly lump the two together under one banner, thinking that new business is a version of account management.
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