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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Magazine top 15 designers in the world, author of Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future.

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Alibaba: The First Real Test for Amazon’s Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself.

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms? Perhaps a new rationale will be required to drive institutional success in the future.

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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. Barra has his work cut out for him: Chinese companies have had mixed success so far in competing with top Western brands on several fronts at once.

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The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Harvard Business Review

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. for three years.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. This has generally been a successful strategy for universities in both financial and strategic terms. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology'

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

In Ma’s case, this dream is not only about establishing a successful and sustainable internet company, but about the type of company that can accomplish this: The company [Alibaba] will remain a ‘start-up’ no matter how long it has been in existence. China Disruptive innovation Global business' Understanding Chinese Consumers.