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Winning Principles For Leaders And Coaches

Eric Jacobson

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011. Your people make you a leader.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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The Leadership Playbook Of Bill Campbell

Eric Jacobson

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011. Your people make you a leader.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business Review

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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What’s Your $1 Billion Idea?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. Back in the US, unable to find a suitable camera wrist strap, Woodman sets out to develop one himself. He then develops a video camera that debuts in 2007. And by January 2015, I’ll see where I end up. It’s a hit.

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