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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. That’s what happened, remember, in the airline industry. It was a crash deregulation in the late ‘70s, and you had this crazy … All the airlines, suddenly everybody became a national airline.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

One 2013 study illustrates this well. We found that the companies most famous for their cultures — from Southwest Airlines to Trader Joe’s — maximize the good motives , while minimizing the bad ones. Take for example the airline industry. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization.

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Four Reasons to Believe in a Second American Century

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. As it develops, the U.S. How’d that work out?)