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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

If that's not challenge enough, you can have the best team in the world and the best product in the world, but if your business model is not sensible and doesn't sustain the enterprise, it really doesn't matter what you set out to accomplish. Careers can be short or long. Repeating success is about the journey.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. I’ve covered tech for 20 years, so I’d interviewed people like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders early in their careers.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business Review

Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. NYPL librarians had long suspected that in-house use was substantial, but the magnitude was surprising and something for which the library’s business model had never accounted.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Seven Habits can be useful to the personal and professional development of anyone charting a career in business.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Seven Habits can be useful to the personal and professional development of anyone charting a career in business.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. From 1986 through 1993, during the Sculley era, Apple spent $1.8

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The next morning, as Derek was driving to the office, he mulled over his relationship with Rogier.