Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much is written about learning from failure, but much less of failing from success. It was inspiring to get to know Nido Quebein, President of High Point University, along with his concept of Productive Failures and Unproductive Success. Success can slow us down in other areas as well. 5 Ways Success is Holding You Back.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Readership had been dipping for four successive generations, as most youth turned to social networks and other online media for news. newspaper industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The other main contenders seemed to be Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, Stanford economics professor John Taylor, and of course Columbia Business School dean (and economics professor) Glenn Hubbard, whose students made an awesome viral video about his purported disappointment at being passed over.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. In fact, few of us do.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Except funding, of course. Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. It has to zig and zag to find success before it runs out of money. The end result too frequently is the market speeds ahead of the autonomous organization.

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