Building Personal Strength
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
Until the hurricanes chased us off in 2004. The housing market burst after we left, and lots of homes were foreclosed, including the home of a friend of ours down the street. Another friend told us that there's a real problem with people breaking into these vacated homes and stealing everything they can. It's Sunday. Day of rest.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2014
But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense! These lessons work in companies, communities, countries, sports teams, and even families.
In the CEO Afterlife
MARCH 18, 2015
This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2016
In 2004, Bravo launched Project Runway , the competitive reality TV show for aspiring designers. To the culturally popular “winners never quit” mentality, marketing guru Seth Godin retorts, “Winners quit all the time. If your metrics show improvement or increasing growth, it’s time to double down.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 8, 2013
And the services they provide do keep improving (along with the prices, of course, but that''s mainly sports fans'' fault ). Their market penetration has probably peaked , as younger consumers (among them many of my colleagues at HBR) increasingly opt for cheaper workarounds via their Internet connections.
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