The Marketing Imagination

The Marketing Imagination: A book review by Bob Morris

March 28, 2019

The Marketing Imagination Expanded Edition) Theodore Levitt Free Press (1986) There is no other  single source of greater value…none Do not be misled by the date of this Expanded Edition: Of the more than 27 gazillion books on marketing now…

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“People don’t want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.” Theodore Levitt

May 17, 2018

In 50 Business Classics series, Tom Butler-Bowdon includes a discussion of Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt and his concept of marketing myopia, introduced in an HBR article (1960) and then featured in Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination (1983). These are among the dozens of…

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On Ted Levitt and “Marketing Myopia”

January 10, 2018

Here is an excerpt from a article written about Theodore Levitt by the editors of Harvard Business Review (July/August 2004 issue) and the HBR Blog Network. His “Marketing Myopia” is generally viewed as the single most important article in what continues to be…

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Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to improve how you create or increase demand for what you offer Those who aspire to maximize the impact of their…

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The Marketing Imagination: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2011

The Marketing Imagination (Expanded Edition) Theodore Levitt Free Press (1986) Do not be misled by the date of this Expanded Edition: Of the more than 27 billion books on marketing now in print, none has had a greater impact than…

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Most Valuable Business Insights: 11-15

March 2, 2011

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best…

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