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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. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Coase had observed first-hand the efficiencies to be gained by internalizing market transactions. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'