Boards Quote by Virginia Knauer

“The composition of boards should reflect approximately the profile of the company’s stakeholders, such as shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers.”

— Pearl Zhu

“large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company…

— Adam Lashinsky

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves.…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive…

— Pearl Zhu

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“Remember, the goal of positioning is to control the public’s perception of a product or service as it relates to competitors’ alternatives.”

— Steven Gary Blank

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

— Thomas G. Stemberg

You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic…

— Martin Sorrell

“You want how you do business to be consistent among all team members, including partners, management, employees, and even vendors.”

— Amber Hurdle

“In contrast, a manufacturer will usually make better margins on its biggest products and be constantly looking to rationalise its tail of lower-volume lines.…

— Greg Thain

“From this standpoint, the role of the market, as already noted, is that it permits unanimity without conformity; that it is a system of…

— Milton Friedman

“But a retailer cannot slice and dice its customers at the brand level (i.e. chain) to the same degree. A retailer who seeks to…

— Greg Thain