Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

You can find and read more about this lesson, and its backing by facts and history, in one of my all-time favorite business books, “ Good to Great ” by Jim Collins. Collins noted that in every instance, the leaders of the great companies demonstrated these two traits. What’s so earth shatteringly wonderful about this?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting. And now, will this remarkable financial performance end?

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Imagine, for example, being promised a culture of innovation only to have every new idea you put forward dismissed. Take outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia. Or banking on career advancement opportunities only to realize that your employer seldom fills open roles from within your organization.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model."

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

” We are seeing this play out right now, for example, in the retail space, where forces are creating tremendous complexity for CEOs. At the same time, there has been a good deal of writing about the usefulness of humility in CEOs.

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