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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace. They make mistakes. They fumble.

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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. That's a mug's game.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Business strategies are lofty, typically long-term oriented, and often aspirational. When faced with an organization design challenge, many managers rush to grab a cocktail napkin—long the instrument of choice for reorganizing—and sketch out a high-level diagram of boxes and reporting relationships.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. That said, the respondents might be right in the larger sense that companies are unprepared for systemic and longer-term challenges.

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What's Wrong With America's Innovation Policies

Harvard Business Review

It isn't producing results in terms of new companies, jobs, or economic growth in general, yet billions more flow into NIH and universities every year. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. global competitiveness.