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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. . Maybe you’re both fans of the same hockey team or you both like foreign films. Here are some strategies to ensure fairness.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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