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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. When at school, I clearly remember learning about Japanese theory management and how, in Japan, people were more concerned with the long-term outcomes of what they did rather than the immediate short-term benefits.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Simon McGill/Getty Images. We measured digital innovation based on the number of digital patents the firm had secured from 1998 to 2010. Managers in established firms should therefore try to reset market expectations through proactive and carefully calibrated communications to investors before they pursue digital innovations.

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Google Beware: Groupon Is No YouTube

Harvard Business Review

billion to buy YouTube when the site was making less than $11 million a year, so a $6 billion price for Groupon, which is projected to earn $1.5 Let's look at the details: Although it is extremely attractive to more than 35 million users, Groupon earns its revenue from the small businesses that run price promotions through the site.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

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