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Transformational Growth and Disruptive Change: 4 Principles to Guide You

Marshall Goldsmith

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Dear readers! BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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How the Market Ruined Twitter

Harvard Business Review

It’s still the users whose creating and sharing gives Twitter its value as a business, but their activities are now mostly channeled and managed by the company itself. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass?

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

Harvard Business Review

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

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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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. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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