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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful

Harvard Business Review

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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The Chief Innovation Officer’s 100-Day Plan

Harvard Business Review

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. There may be a backlog of ideas waiting to be developed.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

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The 5 Things IBM Needs to Do to Win at AI

Harvard Business Review

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.