International Business

Here are the 101 insights Bobb Biehl has counted on and quoted the most often over the past 35 years! These principles, insights, definitions, and rules of thumb can help you in any walk of life and for the rest of your life!

Life is the greatest teacher of all - to learn from it is to be better positioned to live in it. It’s true, life is the best teacher you can ever have. Every experience, adventure, exposure, encounter, and all that we go through give us significant knowledge and instill enough power within us to make our lives better with each passing day.

Business scholars C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel base their 1990 argument for a strategy change on a comparison of case studies. They note that some corporations are adept at inventing new markets, quickly entering emerging markets, and shifting patterns of customer choice in established markets. The authors suggest that the ability to identify core competencies allows companies to develop new products quickly, and they challenge managers to emulate these best practices