Lesson for leaders Innovations rule today’s world, so everyone wants to innovate. Innovations are filed for patenting and claimed as property before they are launched. If someone else had…
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How do you sell when your buyers can’t buy? Mounting dysfunction in the B2B buying process
Everyone is aware that B2B buying is complex. It involves multiple parties over long decision-making cycles. In a large enterprise, this can take months, if not years, and involve dozens…
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Use Partnership Capitalism to raise everyone’s success, lead markets and grow profits
Lesson for leaders Tech-driven change is accelerating. It increasingly disrupts every industry, business, product, and profession. It is no longer possible to project yesterday’s trends to lead markets tomorrow….
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Should you stop (organic) social media activity?
Is your boss wondering why engagement is down and people don’t share your posts? Do you feel disappointed when your carefully-crafted article doesn’t get many (or any) likes? Here’s the…
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Publishing’s revolutionary breakout: always-on, multi-way connections in Shared Life Spaces
Lesson for leaders Publishing’s plight is clear: continuing today’s publishing platform is a recipe for disaster. Tomorrow is not just another day. A global digital transformation is underway. Publishing’s…
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How purposeful branding is driving millennials and social entrepreneurship
The world has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or since the 2008 recession. Economic and job growth is coming less from traditional industries or big corporations, but more…
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Connected Consumption is the new customer experience (CX)
Lesson for leaders Today’s marketing is becoming obsolete. It comes from yesterday’s world. Its focus is “find, buy, and deliver.” Now imagine having an invisible 2-way channel inside everything that…
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Digital herds
In his thought-provoking podcast Revisionist History, renowned author and speaker Malcolm Gladwell investigates what he calls “the overlooked and the misunderstood.” In one of its most captivating episodes, “The Big…
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Should brands take a public stand on social or political issues?
The year 2017 is just half over, and it is already proving to be amazingly transformative with the number and nature of emotional changes in our culture and political world….
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B2B marketing lessons from Michael Brenner
I listened to Michael Brenner recently give a keynote talk to B2B marketers at the MeritDirect Coop client conference, and picked up scads of great insights, tips, and strategic wisdom…
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