Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

French and I have been friends since meeting at a conference several years ago, and we’ve since shared the stage as speakers to business audiences –and as guitar players at a couple of jam sessions , too. Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. Play to your strengths.

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Succession Audience Wilde Entrepreneur 40

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

French and I have been friends since meeting at a conference several years ago, and we’ve since shared the stage as speakers to business audiences –and as guitar players at a couple of jam sessions , too. Innovation is great, but it’s also important to stay true to your core business. Play to your strengths.

Succession 40

Succession Audience Wilde Entrepreneur 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

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Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In an effort to understand the new logic of change and the emerging rules of success, we convened a conference around the theme “How Do You Overthrow a Successful Company?” It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans. Citigroup got caught up in the financial crisis and has never been the same.

Company 8

Company Long-term Conference Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no questioning the fact that Musk’s talent for entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to translate original and useful ideas into practical innovations, is truly outstanding. Silicon Valley, with its myth of the lone innovator who disrupts the status quo, is particularly susceptible to these dynamics.

Succession 9

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Meanwhile, one life insurance giant opened an office in New York City featuring “spaces that feel start-uppy,” free beer any time, and weirdly named conference rooms such as “Asteroid Impact” and “Snake Bite.” military and their families and has unleashed a staggering array of digital innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

And follow Justin Fox's coverage of the conference.). I am listening to him share his comprehensive findings — soon to be released — on the power of values-based, self-governing corporate cultures as a driver of sustainable growth, innovation, and resiliency. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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Mezzanine Wilde CEO Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Clearly, social initiatives are not a panacea.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're not asking customers all about this before you invest significant resources in the development of your product and marketing, then you are just guessing from a conference room. Be bold, be shameless. There's too much matter-of-fact, borderline defensive messaging here. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

Marketing 15

Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. If you can facilitate to help your prospect’s businesses, they will reciprocate. Start small and build up.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

But over time, I became less interested in the tactical – calling up reporters to come to press conferences – and more interested in media and marketing strategy. Even Best Buy, the originator of the innovative “Results Only Work Environment” program, later rescinded it.) When your client wastes your time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Disruptive innovation' million people who now work in the industry. [

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. I saw Stewart Brand at a conference a couple months ago. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? Absolutely, an efflorescence of technological innovation. That’s what you see in Google. And there are real heroes. Absolutely, really powerfully.

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