The network is your customer: Five strategies to thrive in a digital age

The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-312

  Rogers, David L ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

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