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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They are transforming each and every business model. At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Carol Kauffman – Founder/Executive Institute of Coaching Harvard, chief supervisor Meyler Campbell Business Coaching Program.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. The same, I’d suggest, is true about illegal business models. A Race to the Bottom.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. There I was on live radio, interviewing Colonel Sanders about his new business enterprise. Extend your business model beyond what it once was and into new sectors. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar.