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Transformational Growth and Disruptive Change: 4 Principles to Guide You

Marshall Goldsmith

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion. Version 2.0 About the Author.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. Instead, it operates more like GE. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy.

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