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How Good Was Steve Jobs, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). Inflation-adjusted using 2010 as base year. million, a 35.4% compounded annual growth rate.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog. Are you currently making small bets?

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