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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. ” In other words, training divorced from excellence is mere compliance. It is more “box ticking” than human capital investment.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.