Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.”

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 285

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth.

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Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. More on that later on.).

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The good news, from a competitive standpoint, is that most people have turned their brain over to bad software, resulting in the all-too-familiar “death by PowerPoint.” Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful.

Skills 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I joined HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company, as the fourth employee and first salesperson in 2007. These early hires will figure out the business model, establish the culture, and ultimately recruit the next wave of employees to drive the business forward. A better work ethic. My answer is no.

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Crisis IPO Marketing Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

But innovation in solutions and business models is equally important because new health-care tools and technologies create beyond-the-pill opportunities. ” But it is naïve to expect busy line-of-business or R&D heads to do that kind of ideation, experimentation and business-model assembly.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8