Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with—but it’s nothing new as a concept.

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Short-term Long-term Leadership Simon 220

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Amazon’s relentless price testing in the online world anchors its competitive advantage. Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

At the 2010 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum in New Delhi we facilitated a workshop entitled "Innovating More with Less for More" where C-level execs shared best practices which their companies have adopted to enable inclusive growth in India. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the CEO and founder of Blood Orange Media.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s model of bounded rationality in decision making explains how this could work. In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.” Different companies will learn about different risks.

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Company Porter Forrester Simon 9