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5 Critical Factors For Building The Right Team

Tanveer Naseer

My task as a leader was to determine who could be developed into star performers, who could be slotted into positions that fit their skills better, and who needed to be cut loose. One of my own flaws was generally erring on the side of “developing people to make it work” which was a noble but often misguided approach.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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When a Product Fails, Find a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. The focus of the firm was development of a treatment for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and its leader was Dr. Frank Baldino, an intense, brilliant, and charming scientist. By 2010, sales exceeded $2B.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. Major markets were migrating to two segments — a high-end served by cable and a low-end served by DSL.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.