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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” A better litmus test for keeping or killing a brand may be purpose.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. Our technology whizzes along at the velocity of a speeding electron, and our poor overtaxed neurons struggle to keep up.