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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business Review

And, like many of the 84 businesses we also studied, they find great things to do and then share them with the world through books, articles and films. As the RCA explained, “We don’t want too many “career academics,” who only work with us. The Disruptive Edge: Experts, nervousness, accidents.

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Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman

Harvard Business Review

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. The South African Airways pitch was won on the basis of a shared ambition of presenting the airline as a symbol for what the entire nation could become.