Inadvertently, they're helping business-school profs come to grips with the essential question of all successful enterprises.
What all successful innovative businesses have is a tight focus on what would delight their clients.
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Charisma will be back in: all successful business chiefs will have to be storytellers and performers.
All successful web companies have adopted this diversified approach: Amazon, Ebay, Google, Twitter, Facebook.
All successful entrepreneurs have stories of overcoming remarkable challenges that would cause most people to turn and run.
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The reason is straightforward: Meeting customer needs is the core value for all successful private online customer communities.
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Amid such mysteries Mr Lander highlights qualities that almost all successful restaurateurs share.
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All successful adjustments in Latin America involved huge initial devaluations and immediate reductions in real wages, thus cutting unit labour costs.
All successful prevention campaigns have worked by preaching ways, notably the use of condoms, that reduce the enjoyment of sex only slightly.
And as with all successful online ventures, the ability to test ideas easily and inexpensively to find out what really works for users is key.
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Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
Still, all successful crowd source communities have to constantly balance between the crowd and the rules, and a benefit of this is that changes are quick to come by.
It was he who first introduced to football an idea that is now virtually de rigueur for all successful teams - the "holding" midfielder in front of the defence.
At which point the mobile revolution will go the way of all successful revolutions, replaced by a ubiquity that makes mobile and, more importantly, touch, less a distinguishing characteristic and more the basic table stakes for innovation and new functionality.
All successful businesses revolve around the creation of value: Social business is about injecting the strategic value of social tools into the heart of your enterprise, harvesting the kind of success companies from IBM to Walgreens and Burberry have enjoyed by doing so.
We'd also point out that MMOs aren't typically the most stable of sectors in the game industry -- outside of Blizzard juggernaut World of Warcraft, few are competitive if at all successful -- and playing one through OnLive would mean paying both for an OnLive subscription and a game subscription.
Nexium, Seroquel (for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), and Crestor (for high cholesterol) have all been successful.
Not all are successful, and some observers worry about what might happen when a fan-funded game flops.
In the last year, software companies like Splunk, Workday and ServiceNow have all had successful IPOs and have remained well above their debut prices.
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Almost all the successful companies began by producing at least some components for others (Sony still does) but were equally determined to carve out names for themselves by making distinctive products.
For example, during the course of the relationship, Arsenal players David Grondin, Liam Chilvers, John Halls and Graham Stack all spent successful loan periods at Beveren as did Emmanuel Eboue, who played in a number of trial matches with Arsenal whilst contracted to Beveren.
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We gassed up a Gulfstream 450 one warm September morning and flew one of the most successful recording artists of all time, Jay-Z, to meet the most successful investor of all time, Warren Buffett, on the latter's home turf of Omaha, Nebraska.
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The remaining nucleus was made up of academy players sprinkled with the odd Glazer purchase, all coached by the most successful manager of all time.
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The most successful charter schools -- and let's be clear, not all charters are successful -- have demonstrated that increased autonomy, combined with site-based decision-making over the use of resources, can sometimes contribute to greater effectiveness.
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With the successful passage of the Main Street Fairness Act to bring parity in the tax structure for retailers in all channels, successful retailers will really be able to thrive.
The state's most successful all-time team, the Kentucky Wildcats, rarely schedules games against Western Kentucky.
Not all have been successful, but that is the nature of our competitive market system.
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