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- Online Education Provides a Career Gangplank for a Retiring Naval Officer
Do you plan to stay aboard ship for your whole career? If you want to change into a civilian career, you can study while at sea to prepare for new leadership challenges. - Learn from the School of Hard Knocks to Gain Business Career Success
The article looks at the hard-won lessons of the school of hard knocks for building a successful business career. - Design, Propose, and Describe Potential Business Models for Stakeholder Evaluation and Improvement
Take stakeholders into account in creating superior business models and you'll make more improvements that will work better. - Business Model Innovation--Share Benefits Widely to Provide More for Each Stakeholder
Benefits are expandable, depending on who benefits and how much they can gain. Business model innovation needs to take this into account. - Instill a Spirit of Teamwork and Cooperation for Mutual Advantage
Stakeholders of an organization can accomplish more by cooperating than by standing at arms-length. This article explores the advantages of such cooperation. - Insist on the Best for Your Career
Carefully plan your career, set high goals, and then pick the education to give you a huge head start. - Master Taking the Affordable Risks to Reduce or Eliminate the Big Risks
Business model innovation requires careful examination and selection risks. This article explains more about how to do this. - Implement a Valuable Business Model
This article looks at how to go from having ideas for a new business model into implementing one successfully. - Improve Your Business Model Concepts While Testing Specific Changes
Long delays can be avoided when business model innovation implementation is investigated while changes are being tested. - Four Questions You Should Always Ask Before Putting in Cost Reductions
Most cost reductions cause more harm than good. Check your cost reductions with these questions before putting the cost cuts in place and you'll have much more success. - Find Problems with Cost Reductions and Then Make Improvements
Most cost reduction proposals are flawed. But those flaws can help you locate appropriate cost reductions to test. This article shows you how to spot more flaws and make better use of what you learn. - How to Select Among Promising Cost-Reduction Tests
If you are lucky and imaginative, you should have more cost-reduction tests to run than you have time and resources to do so. This article looks at how to pick just the most promising tests. - When One Career Door Closes, Another Career Door Opens
This career-building article looks at how more learning expands personal development, allows people with little business background to gain senior positions, and permits entrepreneurial choices at almost any age. - Set and Achieve High Goals: Launch Your Career onto a Higher Trajectory by Going Beyond an MBA
This article describes the importance of setting the right career goals. - Choose Cost-Reduction Tests That Fit Your Business Model Opportunities
A 300-pound person cannot wear clothes designed for 120-pound person. Cost reduction tests also need to be tailored to fit the circumstances. - Assume the New Cost-Cutting Ideas Will Hurt Customers and Raise Costs
Business leaders need to be more skeptical of cost-reduction ideas . . . before testing them out. - For the Most Profitable Business Model, Repeat What You Have Done, But Differently
Take another look at your thinking about business model innovation, and you'll find new opportunities you missed the last time. - Before Establishing Your Business Model, Anticipate the Potential Effects of What You Can't Control
Don't forecast, but do think about the future so that you will have a business model that will do well . . . regardless of what comes next. - Boost Your Business Model by Borrowing New Expertise You Have Not Thought of Using Before
This article looks at how adding new competence from the outside can speed and strengthen your business model innovation to add profitable growth. - Building a Foundation for an Enhanced Artistic Vision from a Distance
This article explains how artists can use online learning to inexpensively build a new perspective for their artistic visions and increase their professional choices. - Jack, Be Nimble! -- What Have You Learned Today? Who Have You Helped Today?
For the best career, you need to look past the rules that others suggest you follow or impose on you . . . and be nimble in your thinking. This article explores a case history of someone who has designed a unique career path in the hospitality industry. - Make the Rules! -- Don't Just Do What Everyone Else Does
Success requires studying what works for the most extraordinary performers. How can you learn from and improve on what the best do? - Fulfill Your Potential To Fly Higher in Your Career
This article explores how to take ambitious career dreams and turn those dreams into reality. - Value: Locate Ideas to Create More Sales from Improved Value at the Current Price
If you want to improve the profitability of your business model the most, you need to add value without increasing price. - Open Your Horizons to the Many Forms of Value
Look for value-enhancing opportunities that most competitors ignore. - If Your Glasses Are the Wrong Prescription, You Won't See Opportunities in Front of You
CEOs are focusing on the wrong things now. They need to shift to continuing business model innovation. - Lack of Focus Among Large Company CEOs Will Drive Accelerating Business Model Innovation
Few are focused on business model innovation. This means an unusually good opportunity for those who do. - Turn Business Model Leadership into Industry Leadership
Can a small industry player use a new business model to become the industry leader? You bet. This article discusses how this might be done in gold mining. - Create a Gold Mine of Improved Business Models
What's better than owning a gold mine? Having a better business model for extracting gold. This article explores how business model innovation has revolutionized the gold mining industry. - Respond to Rapid Increases in Business Model Innovation
This article contains a forecast of future trends in business models that you need to be prepared to implement. - Live Like 2408 In 2008 II
This article examines your perceptions of how your life will be in the future. What are you afraid of? - Live like 2408 in 2008 IV
This article looks forward to see what the opportunity is to improve your life with normal progress. - Get Ready for Rough Competition from New Business Models
The competitive landscape is shifting to emphasize business model innovation. The pace of this shift is accelerating. Are you ready? - Upgrade to a New Business Model Rather Than Try to Get More Out of Your Existing Business Model
This article asks what you as a leader and entrepreneur should focus on: better business models or increasing the performance of your existing business models. - How Should You Evaluate Your Current Business Model?
Most people would like a better business model, but are unaware of how to see where the current business model can be strengthened. This article addresses that need. - High-Payoff Business Model Innovations: A Lemonade Stand Example
Simply copying what everyone else does won't deliver an improved business model. This article shows how focusing on high-payoff innovation choices can help provide more profit and growth. - Understand the Seven Dimensions of a Business Model Through an Example
A child's lemonade stand provides an example of what a business model is. - The Seven Dimensions of a a Business Model
"Experts" are fond of telling entrepreneurs to have an advantaged business model, but seldom define what a business model is. This article provides a clear definition that can be used to start thinking about how to create an advantaged business model - Strive for an Ideal Business Model
An ideal business model brings exponentially greater rewards than a good business model does. This article describes the ideal approach. - Live like 2408 in 2008 V
This article looks at how concentrating faster improvements could increase the quality of your life. - Live like 2408 in 2008 III
What are your hopes for the future? This article looks at their feasibility in light of risks that concern many people. - What Is a Good Business Model?
Leaders can use this article to test the quality of their business model. - A Hands-On Approach to Solving Problems Helps a Distance Learner Spring into Engineering Management
Many people who do technical work would like to become managers of such technical work. This article looks at how one person made the shift. - Don't Be Blinded by Spreadsheet Illusions of a Golden Future
This article looks at how leaders should focus their attention to make the most profitable improvements. - Business Model Innovation Is More Important Than New Technology to Your Success
Most organizations today spend a fortune on anticipating and applying new technologies to enhance their effectiveness. Yet most business model innovations provide bigger payoffs and are easier to implement. Is it time you shifted your focus? - A Narrowed Focus Can Concentrate Business Model Innovation Success
EMC, the data storage giant, went from being a marginal also-ran into an industry powerhouse by first concentrating its business model innovation where the value would be highest. This article provides a case history you can learn from. - Live like 2408 in 2008 -1-
What if we already knew what it takes to live as well as people will in 2403? This article looks at American history to develop some glimpses of what we might find. - The Future Value of Business Model Innovation
Those who provide continuing business model innovations rapidly and easily will gain exponentially larger competitive advantages and profit gains. - The Competitive Importance of Continuing Business Model Innovation
You can gain lasting competitive advantages. How? By continually upgrading your business model in more profitable ways. - Use Curiosity and Questions to Improve Your Business Model
This article demonstrates how one man built a very profitable single-person business through continuing business model innovation to add more benefits for his customers. - Build Market Leadership and Prosperity
What is the job of a leader? This article argues that it is to continually upgrade to better business models rather than to improve the old ones. - How Can You Find and Study Examples of Continuing Business Model Innovators?
This article describes a methodology that executives and managers can use to locate and understand role models for continuing business model innovation. - A New Approach to Measuring Strategic Best Practices Reveals New Lessons
This article describes what was learned from the first real-time study of CEO best practices in creating unrivaled growth on a continuing basis. - What One Thing Can Most Improve a Company's Growth and Profits?
Continuing business model innovation is what company leaders must do best in setting a strategy and a learning agenda. - Nth Degree Strategy Internet Analysis Example -- Walt Disney's Theme Parks
Developing superior strategies involving the Internet is easiest if you assume vast future potential for the Internet and back into what could be done. In many cases, you'll find that current technology permits the concepts to be implemented now. - An Nth Degree Strategic Analysis of the Internet
Nth degree thinking allows us to make extreme assumptions about irresistible forces as a way to devising strategies that leave us better off regardless of what the forces do. This article applies that approach to analyzing Internet effects on a business. - Is the Internet an Irresistible Force of the Result of One?
Before choosing optimal strategies towards irresistible forces, you have to identify those forces. This article looks at whether or not the Internet is an irresistible force. - Adopt an Ageless Management Perspective
See the world through the eyes of those from all age groups and you'll accomplish more with irresistible forces. - Internet Irresistible Force Lessons
The Internet's business opportunities can be best exploited by anticipating what the future best practices will be that no one is yet doing. - Be a Role Model for Irresistible Force Management
Set a good example in dealing with irresistible forces, and your family will learn faster and be more effective. - Personal Irresistible Force Management Lessons
Irresistible force management helps your personal life by buffering you from severe shifts in factors outside your control. - Apply New Thinking Habits in Choosing a Career
This article shows better ways to choose a career by looking at how you can use factors outside your control too prosper. - An Action Plan for Irresistible Force Management
Nine action steps can help you get the most benefits from irresistible forces outside of your control. - Improve Effectiveness Through an Expanded Focus on Irresistible Forces
Think broader and look further for irresistible forces to gain the most profit advantage. - Embrace Irresistible Forces: Seek Out the Forces and Take Action Now
This article is a call to taking action to make use of irresistible forces to gain profit and growth advantages while becoming more stable and safe. - Improve Profits and Effectiveness Through a Competitive Focus on Irresistible Forces
When you turn your look into irresistible forces towards creating competitive advantage in serving customers, you'll begin to spot large profit opportunities you can use against the competition. - Use Custom Incentives To Stimulate Breakthroughs
People are likely to respond to different sorts of rewards for using their skills well. Be sure to use the right rewards for each person. - Use Hands-On Apprenticeships to Create Breakthrough Performance
Continuing skill expansion is critical to creating breakthroughs. - Standard Incentive Programs Don't Fit Anybody
Customize incentives to each person to help them perform at their best. - Complete Your Organization's Skill Box
After assessing what skills you lack for dealing with irresistible forces, you need to add those skills. This articles explores how to do that. - Check Your Skill Box to See What's Missing
A missing skill can leave your organization motionless like a car without gasoline. - Step Seven: Enhance Your People's Ability to Achieve the Benefits of Irresistible Force Management
Building and motivating your organization are key elements in achieving the full benefits of irresistible force management. This article points out that critical skills are probably missing in your enterprise, and that they must be quickly added through hiring, training, and by adding partners and suppliers. - Full Profit Potential From Locating, Anticipating, Adapting To, Creating, and Shaping Trends
You need to use a full range of tools in order to make the most profitable advantage of irresistible forces. - To Change Irresistible Forces, Add A Pinch Of Prototypes And A Cup Of Celebrity To A Dash Of Demand
This article describes how to change the direction of irresistible forces to favor your enterprise. - Create Changes in Irresistible Forces: Now You're Cooking!
If you can influence changes in powerful trends, that's a more effective way to create better strategies than to simply adapt to such trends. - Adapting to Changes in Irresistible Forces: Optimism, Options, and Open-Mindedness
Optimism, options, and open-mindedness can help you profitably adapt to changes in irresistible forces. This article explains how. - Anticipating Changes in Irresistible Forces: History, People, and Precursors
History, people, and precursors can provide valuable perspectives for anticipating changes in powerful trends. - Look To Infinity And Beyond To Develop the Optimum Strategy
Extreme scenarios will reveal better strategies than assuming you know what will happen next. - Locate Changes in Irresistible Forces: Sensitivity, Selectivity, and Extrapolation
Creating more sensitivity, selectivity, and awareness of the implications of irresistible forces can help establish much better profit performance. - Step Six: Near the Ideal Practice for Locating, Anticipating, and Adapting to Irresistible Forces
Be sure to come as close to perfect as you can in locating, anticipating, and adapting to irresistible forces. - Find the Silver Lining by Finding, Anticipating, and Adapting to the Nth Degree of Change
This article contains directions for finding and following optimal paths that take into account irresistible forces. - Implement Strategies That Feature Always-Win, No-Lose Adaptability
If you anticipate whatever might come your way, you'll always be prepared to prosper. - Look Above and Beyond the Most Extreme Cases You Can Imagine to Make Much More
Go beyond forecasting to use extreme scenario-based thinking and find the best strategies. - Let Extreme Scenarios Guarantee Tremendous Profit Growth
This article provides an example of how to see ideal strategies by considering all the good and bad things that can happen. - Be Flexible and Adapt, or Break into Worthless Pieces
Create more flexibility in your organization, and you will do better when irresistible forces shift. - Understand The Always-Win, No-Lose Strategy
Rather than be buffeted by irresistible forces, it's better to choose a strategy that is always superior regardless of circumstances. - Step Five: Identify the Ideal Best Practice for Dealing with Changes in Irresistible Forces
There is a nearly perfect way for relating to irresistible forces. This article explains why it's important to identify this nearly perfect way. - Develop Irresistible Force Detectors to Locate Buried Treasure
Opportunities can be unearthed when irresistible forces and new trends bring us to new situations in our markets. - Be Readier Than Anyone Else to Anticipate Now and Later
Undoubtedly, you can gain the most benefit from irresistible forces if you have proprietary advantages into those forces that no one else can match. - Attention All Hands: Go To Battle Stations To Prepare For Trend Shifts
Rehearsals for unexpected shifts in irresistible forces can provide confidence and experience in what to do. - Be Battle Tested in Adapting to Powerful Trends and Irresistible Forces
This article discusses the potential of using games and simulations to learn how to adapt to irresistible forces and powerful trends. - Use Moore's Law to Get More Lead Time on Irresistible Force Changes
The continual improvement in electronics will provide opportunities to create more and better ways to anticipate irresistible forces in the future. - Adapt to Changes in Irresistible Forces: Guerrillas, Games, and Drills
This article looks at potential ways to improve in adapting to changes in irresistible forces to make more profit. - Seven Breakthrough Steps to Business Success
Many people want to find their purpose and live that purpose through a business career. Many find that's easier said than done. This article proposes seven steps that lead to breakthrough performance in achieving career success through one's life purpose. - Anticipating Changes in Irresistible Forces: Secrets, Standards, and a Head Start
This article explains some of the most advantageous ways to anticipate changes in irresistible forces to gain more profit advantages. - Look for Automatic Advantages in Adapting to Irresistible Forces
Putting adaptation to irresistible forces on auto pilot makes it easier to do the right thing. - Be Sensitive to Changes in Your Monitors of Irresistible Forces
It's not enough to track irresistible forces; you must be prepared to act as soon as possible when they shift. - Locating Changes in Irresistible Forces: Monitors, Measures, and Making Decisions
You need a big picture to locate change in irresistible forces. - Step Four: Find Ways to Exceed the Future Best Practices in Your Enterprise
To gain a competitive advantage, you have to outdo the best that anyone else will be doing in the future. - Be Aggressive in Seeking Out Future Best Practices Concerning Powerful Trends
If you stop your search too soon, you'll miss most of the opportunity to take more profitable advantage of irresistible forces.
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