A Promising Investment Opportunity? Here is a viable scenario that is based on recent trends (e.g., Macro Demographic Changes, Lifestyle Shifts, Technological Tends, New Business Models, and Intensified Competitive Dynamics): Reimagining the convenience store. C-stores are uniquely positioned to exploit new demands for convenience and increasing urbanization. They’re already closer to consumers than any other […]
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This is an old Mesa Associates [the forerunner to Axis Associates] pricing paper that was published in The Journal of Professional Pricing. It reminds me of the old George Santayana [philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist] quote from his work titled The Life of Reason (1905-1906): “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When
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Time Management in a Nutshell The key to effective time management, it seems, is balance. Stay focused and allocate your time against key activities in a balanced and meaningful way. Key Activities: making operational decisions managing and motivating people setting direction and strategy managing short-term or unexpected issues dealing with external stakeholders Balance, balance, balance…
Think about a perspective called “creative destruction” aka “reinvention” — the new makes obsolete and replaces the old… In business, If one takes this concept to heart [and to the max], a notion might be to set up an organization within an organization to destroy it. Better to be destroyed from within than from without
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What is Mind Mapping? Mind mapping is a tool used for creating, thinking, organizing, note taking and brainstorming. All mind mapping begins with a “central idea” that is inserted in the middle of a map. From there, build branches or nodes around the mind map’s central idea, with the first layer being one hierarchical layer
For revenue-growth ideas, look to the market: current customers former customers lost prospects channel partners competitors Once the analysis is completed, send the “hunters” out to get the revenue/business, not the “farmers” (repco)
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