Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When one investment firm saw a stock price fall they wisely avoided a knee-jerk reaction. At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Not too surprisingly, people who possess a poor sense of timing usually don’t even understand timing is an issue.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low. For example, one-click access to thousands of mutual funds, or exceptional service for the price paid. Technology can probably breathe new life into them.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey. –John Ruskin. – -Will Rogers. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions.

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Succession How To Gilbert Learning-by-Doing 164

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. “Buy now,” he says, “because the price will rise quickly.” An example: the experts in key card computing were displaced by new technology.) Leaders think for themselves. “It’s not what we don’t know that hurts; it’s what we know that ain’t so.”

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Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 57