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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Last year I got to edit his book, Winning Investors Over , and an accompanying HBR article, " How to Win Investors Over." Your book argues that they're wrong. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., JF: What about quarterly earnings? BL: Not really. BL: Simple.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The word was suggested by one attendee who had been reading the book Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer. The book gave 100 examples of companies — including ABB, Federal Express, Boeing, Bose, and Harley-Davidson — that were creating new ways of adapting to more turbulent markets.

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Why Polling Is Always Political

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who's read Silver's book on analytics ( I reviewed it for Fortune ) would likely agree he has a sure grasp to 'best practice' statistical modeling.