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Lesson #1: Be A Visionary
Thomas didn’t just know how to cook a good hamburger; he single-handedly revolutionized the fast food industry. He didn’t want to be just another fast-food joint; he wanted to create the type of old-fashioned family restaurant that he had dined in so many times with his father and he wanted to serve quality food.

Everything Changes after a Recession
“If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside, then the end is in sight” Jack Welch, CEO, G. E. In fact, the world is rapidly changing and organizations need to keep up. Innovation has become one of the top business objectives in organizations that want to grow, out perform their competitors and, indeed, survive by creating a high value proposition. More than 70% of senior executives said “innovation will be at least one of the top three drivers of growth for their companies in the next three to five years”.

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5. Penetration Selling -- Penetrating the Barriers to Understanding
In Penetration Selling, we therefore recognize that the key barriers which need to be penetrated during the presentation are: • Anything that might block the prospect from achieving a full understanding of the product, and even more importantly, • Anything that might block the prospect from gaining a good understanding of how the product will more than adequately satisfy his key needs and wants for owning that product. For a prospect to develop sufficient interest in and desire for acquiring a product, he needs to not only become familiar with the features of that product, but he needs to additionally become convinced that the benefits which that product offers him will more than satisfy his specific purposes for acquiring that product. For example...

Experience Innovation – The Next Generation
Rob Rush discusses the power of innnovation and how to be sure that you're innovations are providing real value to your brand and your customers. Don't innovate...for innovation's sake!

When you hear, "Your Price Is Too High!!
When your customer tells you your price is too high—You have made the sale. That’s right. They are telling you • The product you are selling satisfies all their needs • he product solves their problems • They love your product/service • They want your product/service Now all you have to do is show them your product is worth more to them than their money. All you have to do is turn the feature Price into a BENEFITT.

Breakthrough Thinking
There is something very appealing about inventions, innovations and breakthrough thinking. An idea that leads to a product, or a way of being that changes a paradigm.

Sustainability Driven Innovation
Sustainable innovations are creating new business models, opening up new markets and providing competitive advantages. Sustainable innovation is also improving profitability. Companies around the world are demonstrating how innovative sustainable practices are bettering their bottom line. A focus on sustainability is enabling organisations to innovate, differentiate themselves and succeed. Although sustainable practices were once dismissed for being too costly, increasing numbers of companies are coming to the realization that sustainable innovations are a gateway to growth. Visionary business leaders who anticipate the winds of change and creatively develop sustainable products and processes will thrive in the rapidly changing economic landscape.

Getting back to basics
One of the real challenges is keeping sales momentum while understanding how changes in customers, competitors, markets, innovations, media, technology and all manner of things will impact on our businesses and our people. Getting our heads around all this to find the right ingredients for our plans and strategies will be demanding. We need to recognise the new ‘things’, in themselves, will not make things better, it is how they are integrated and applied in ours and our customers current situation and circumstances. Often with new technologies, new trends, new ideas, and new innovations people become distracted thinking that these new things will promise to make life better, easier, faster, or more effective or efficient, all the while missing 2 key points...

Financial Debt: America's New Public Enemy
All this new "reform" debt means more new plants and business locations not opening... more product lines and new innovations not being launched... more research into problem-solving technologies not being sponsored... and more jobs not being created. If you are looking for work, or to improve on your current job, you need someone to invest in you. It's tough hunting this season.

Designing Web Sites for New Computers
Computers have the same basic components they have had for over twenty years. However, there are new ways to design a website to take advantage of these innovations. These innovations can bring new depth and innovation to web design. Staying on top of current trends separates an average web site from a great website.

Innovation Through Accidents and \"Controlled Chaos\"
Mark Twain, once said, "name the greatest of all inventors. Accident." He was right. Most innovations and breakthroughs come from mistakes, serendipity, false starts, set backs, and misapplications. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

Lesson #3: Look Towards the Future
"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines," Said Enzo Ferrari. The car engine was the most important thing that Ferrari concentrated on when he was building race and production cars. The innovations, horsepower and designs were unmatched by any other manufacturer when Ferrari first attempted to innovate his race cars. Only after the success of his engines did his competitor's believe that his innovations were a viable option.

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