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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

Today, only 9% of businesses in the world have achieved even a modest level of sustained, profitable growth over the past decade on average (5.5%, earning cost of capital) and that is declining — even though virtually all the businesses aspire to something like this or more. That is a topic for a future blog.).

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What Shareholder Value is Really About

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. A CEO's job is about resource allocation with a goal of earning a return in excess of the opportunity cost of capital. The challenge is figuring out how to allocate human and financial capital to its best and highest use for the long term.