How to become a Market Leader VadiK Inventor Author Founder     Strategies  ▪ Tips  ▪  Tools  ▪  Examples         Successful Practices 3 Common Traits of Marketplace Champions Benefits of Market Leadership Market Dominance Strategies Disruptive Strategist Value Innovation Fast to Market Proactive Futuring KoRe Examples   If you want to be successful in business, start with establishing the culture of love for customers. The rest will follow. ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   Love for customers is the springhead of the cascade of innovations and the river of revenues.     Leading vs. Lagging Companies Leading companies are agile and fast. Lagging companies are bureaucratic, cumbersome and slow.   Live Speed Eliminate Bureaucracy     To stand out from your competition, you must be the first, be the best, and be remarkable. Being first comes from breaking rules and being fast. Being the best is good, but not enough. You must also be remarkable and rememberable.   The most important is to find the most important difference that makes the difference ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   Invent and introduce new products faster than the competition. If you are the first, you get an edge over the competition because it's much easier to get into the mind of consumers and win a mindshare if you open a new door to a better life.     Growth 10+ The 7Ss of exponential business growth 10+ are Strategic intent, Systemic innovation, Synergies, Simulation games, Scaling up, Speed, and Sustained effort.     Leading companies that create an environment where employees are encouraged and rewarded for making contributions of their street-smarts in order to fuel the company's soft-innovation efforts keep inventing amazing customer experiences.   Soft and Hard Innovation Keys to Success of Innovation Functions