Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. Lyft cofounder Logan Green was inspired to start his company after a trip to Africa, where he was awestruck to observe extraordinarily cooperative mass transit in Zimbabwe, despite the apparent chaos of a developing country. Version 2.0 Pinterest: Redefining success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. But Alibaba doesn’t look much like Facebook, Google, or even Amazon.

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