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Ever since Theodore Levitt wrote his groundbreaking paper “Marketing Myopia,” business leaders have been asking themselves, “What business are we really in?”

The premise of the article — that organizations need to define their industries broadly to take advantage of growth opportunities and to offset emerging threats — makes sense. But it’s a difficult principle to implement because thinking broadly requires thinking differently.[…] Continue Reading »

This post is by Geoff Livingston

My latest book “Welcome to the Fifth Estate: How to Create and Sustain a Winning Social Media Strategy,” discusses influencer theory in detail, including a section on the history of influencer theory on the social Web. Since drafting that material, leaderboard debate about quantifying influence has dramatically shaped the conversation on influencer theory.[…] Continue Reading »