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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

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Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly | Main | Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks » August 23, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Every Monday I like to round up five blog posts that I found to be especially good reading over the past week. 

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards.

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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

And in part because Republicans controlled the redistricting process in most states after the 2010 census (a byproduct of the anti-Democrat backlash in the 2010 elections), they don’t have to worry much about the GOP losing its House majority soon. A smaller Republican majority in the House increases their leverage within the caucus.