Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

World-class athletes and dancers explicitly train for pain even beyond the point of injury. Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon.

Innovation 14

Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain. production and operatives). Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Organizations like Kmara in Georgia, Pora in Ukraine and the April 6th movement in Egypt, received advice and training from the group and found similar success. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Our power train electronics are sophisticated and efficient — I think as good as anybody's.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. With a knife a trained surgeon can do something that a skilled villain or even an experienced butcher could never do. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. He or she can wound with the intention of healing.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. aren’t taught management skills in medical school.

Training 14

Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9