Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Being in the right place at the right time can make or break careers and companies. A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. Instead, the firm remained firmly in Rochester, New York, capital of an older technology era.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

From education, Eton College, from science, NASA (initially part of the US Army), and from sport, the New Zealand All Blacks and British Cycling. And, like many of the 84 businesses we also studied, they find great things to do and then share them with the world through books, articles and films.

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