Differentiating your business is challenging. It involves dynamic competitors, changing buyer behaviors, market conditions, trends, and frequently changing technology.
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In A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management EffectivenessRoger Martin believes execution is the same as strategy.
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“To become a true strategist, you must take three steps. First, become aware of the weakness and illness that can take hold of the mind, warping its strategic powers. Second, declare a kind of war on yourself to make yourself move forward. Third, wage ruthless and continual battle on the enemies within you by applying certain strategies.”
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When Positioning Systems started in 1998 my intention was to help businesses discover their unique and valuable position. For 20 years I helped business create messages to differentiate from their competition. Jack Trout and Al Ries’ classic marketing book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind provided this impetus. A classic positioning example was 7-Up’s, The Uncola!
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How to Create Clarity, Growth, Momentum – Your Flywheel
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 15, 2020
Topics: Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel, strategy decisions, Strategy - How, Turning the Flywheel, Flywheel, bezonomics, brian dumaine
There is no perfect strategy—nothing can guarantee your business a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Can a business with lousy service reverse their strategy to become fanatical about customer support?
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Step 5, Management Systems: What Systems Are Required, is the most neglected of the 5 steps to a Winning Strategy.
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