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If you think there is nothing but bad news, you’re not wrong. A recent study encompassing 1,000 people in 17 countries (from…
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Pricing projects generally involve a high level of collaboration and coordination between numerous departments in an organization. At a minimum, representatives from…
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The forward-thinking business world is united in the belief that meetings, by and large, are simply bad ideas. Bad meetings are the…
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I recently picked up a copy of Darrell Huff’s 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics. Although Huff’s background was not in…
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My book, The New Invisible Hand: Five Revolutions in the Digital Economy, has been out for six weeks, and I’ve been floored…
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I was recently in Portland, Oregon for the first time, attending a business conference. The Digital Summit series brings together all manner…
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The product in question is the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play sleeper. The product has been on the market since 2009 and Fisher-Price has sold some 4.7 million units, subject to the recall. Since the product was introduced, the Rock ‘n Play sleeper has been blamed for 32 infant deaths.
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Common examples of channel partners include wholesalers, distributors, and retailers. All of these activities are necessary tasks for a functioning commercial organization. If the supplier doesn’t do one of these tasks, a channel partner must. Conversely, if a channel partner doesn’t, the supplier must.
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For years advertisers and advertising agencies have relied on Q. When investing huge sums of money on campaigns using pitch people, the Q factor is crucial in the selection process.
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One thing is for sure, it’s virtually impossible to predict the stock market. In many ways, the stock market might be compared to a day at the racetrack. Predicting today or tomorrow’s winners is virtually impossible. What we can do very well is explain why something happened after it happened.
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