In today's copycat economy, products and being commoditized, services are being imitated, and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. Markets are becoming more crowded with "me-too" players and products.

In this environment, it's harder to differentiate yourself from competitors, to keep profit margins and customer loyalty up, and to grow market share and stock value. To sustain healthy growth and competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, your organization must break from the pack.

Depending on your organization's goals, management consultant Oren Harari will discuss:

• The symptoms of the Copycat Economy, the causes of Commodity Hell, and how you can break from the pack while your competitors stay stuck in "hell"
• Why so many orthodox and familiar management approaches are doomed to keeping you stuck in the pack; Beware—your company is probably doing some of them!
• How to lead customers and markets (not just respond to them), how to continually reinvent your organization and your value proposition—and how to do all this profitably
• How to create a culture of curiosity, passion, constant innovation, prudent risk, and disciplined execution—Why? In order to stay perpetually exciting and unique in ways that matter to customers
• How to select the best markets for your organization—and then how to dominate them;
• How to create a higher cause that will help your organization make a big difference, brand a unique footprint, and leave a big legacy
• How to create a powerful pipeline of breakthrough products and services that defy conventional wisdom, current industry practices and even your own organization's current menu;
• How to provide your customers with a service and experience they thought was simply impossible—and thereby elicit reactions that go way beyond a commodity feeling of "satisfaction"; that's how you build customer loyalty and break from the pack
• How to innovate in supposedly "dull" areas like cost reduction, operational efficiency, and supply-chain management—not just to save lots of money and time, but to enjoy quantum leaps in foresight, customer care, and agility
• Why the track record of conventional "mergers and acquisitions" is so awful, and how the revolutionary new 6T Blueprint for M & A will help your organization break from the pack
• How to succeed and graduate from the "12 Step Leadership Recovery Program," which will make you a hero in moving forward boldly, creating break-from-the-pack plans, and executing them with brilliance, flair and discipline

The New Leadership Paradigm: What it Takes to Transform Companies and People

From Oren Harari's books and research, he selectively draws from nearly 30 elegant, rigorous, "battle-tested" leadership principles that will help you lead your organizations to new heights of competitive advantage and employee commitment. Some of these principles include:

• How to make change a competitive weapon
• How to build a spirit of speed and entrepreneurship in your organization
• How to build a sense of healthy urgency and avoid complacency and arrogance
• How to execute with overwhelming force and effectiveness
• How to selectively get the right people thrilled, and the right people angry in order to get exceptional things done
• How to promote a constructive clash of creative ideas
• How to avoid getting stuck in pessimism, resistance and a culture of ‘no' (in other words, how to spread optimism, confidence, passion and hope)
• How to properly empower and trust the people in the trenches—and hold them accountable for results
• How to pick the best people and get them to stay
• How to lead with integrity and character
• How to take the right sorts of risk
• How to unleash your talented people without creating chaos
• How to stay engaged without micro-managing and second-guessing
• How to "team up with aliens" (individuals and groups outside your industry)
• How to take personal responsibility for your own career growth and skill development
• How to "lead from the middle"
• How to lead with the "5 C's": Courage, Creativity, Compassion, Curiosity, and Consistency.

How to Create Fast, Agile, Innovative, "Road Runner" Organizations

Management consultant Oren Harari explains how to create fast, agile, innovative organizations that will thrive in today's globally networked, nanosecond marketplace.

Harari demonstrates how leaders can create organizations that: get to market first; that "turn on a dime;" play offense a lot more than defense; are so lean and competent that they can focus on "market units of one" (customized products, personalized services for each customer); have a bold and audacious cultural "tone;" internally obliterate the barriers to ideas and information; are transparent, boundary-less, and collaborative; are perpetually learning; turn employees into owners and businesspeople; are characterized by energy and excitement; are cost efficient, operationally rapid, and highly creative; transform themselves into a web of innovative networks and alliances; have technologies, systems, cultures and people that are all aligned towards big audacious, groundbreaking goals; and that are full of people who work hard and have fun while they do what conventional wisdom says is impossible.

Jumping the Curve: A New Business Paradigm for a New Marketplace

Oren Harari describes why organizations and markets are now in a historically significant "age of transition," and why leaders must help their organizations "jump the curve"-- that is, make significant, discontinuous leaps in their products and business models.

Harari discusses four critical strategic leadership imperatives: 1) The innovation imperative: how to practice "creative destruction;" 2) The intelligence imperative: how to grow a "smart" organization; 3) The coherence imperative: how to link execution to values and ideals; 4) The responsibility imperative: how to guarantee that the customer is the final arbiter of your efforts.