article thumbnail

Cirque du Soleil: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bacon Doubleday (2006) “From a tiny spark a great fire was kindled and its flames warmed the world.” Cirque du Soleil: The Spark – Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All Created by Lyn Heward and written by John U. Cirque du Soleil is one of the 32 organizations that William C. Taylor [.].

article thumbnail

Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market. The result is DOST, an entry-level pick-up truck with a starting price of Rs 3.7

CEO 15
article thumbnail

What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.