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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. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets. What Polman clearly understood was that if you are kind to the planet and the communities in which you operate, that long-term success is inevitable.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

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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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. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.”

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