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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote

Harvard Business Review

Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. A search of Jardim's book turns up no mentions of the phrase "faster horse.". I also purchased a copy of the book to read, and could not find the quote.

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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Her latest book is called Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead and her area of study includes vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark!

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Why Elon Musk’s New Strategy Makes Sense

Harvard Business Review

They then moved into the luxury market where they applied plenty of competitive pressure with the Model S. And recently they announced the final part of their plan: a mass-market vehicle costing around $30,000 that quickly racked up years worth of pre-orders.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. By "loving" Firefox, the web community is saying that they believe an open web browser is valuable to the world. Because that's the point.

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