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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. In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business.

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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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Success from the Feminine Perspective

Women in the LEAD

  Social researchers have put a price on the value that women add to the bottom line in corporations.   I think that’s great, but I think there’s more to life for women than just success.   So often we have been putting on the trousers, climbing the ladder, and doing things in a masculine way in all areas of our life.

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Waking Up, Taking Risks

Women in the LEAD

Then comes a point—one you’ve undoubtedly reached—where the cost of missing the sheer grandeur of life’s depth and breadth is too high a price to pay. When the pressures of living in a fast-moving world have felt overwhelming, a long, deep “nap” has seemed to be a reasonable coping technique.   Waking up becomes the imperative.

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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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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. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies.

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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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