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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. We didn’t want to overlay them with the Ford bureaucracy. They can’t hedge, like Ford is doing.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Lastly: If you''re in a big bureaucracy and you''re making changes to what''s happening on the ground, pretend everything''s normal and no one will notice until your plans succeed. "By Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders.