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The Five-Step Failure Checklist

Harvard Business Review

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. In short, your inner voice shouldn't berate you any more than your outer voice would address a hardworking employee. Checkbox 4: Are you being "Macromyopic" and overdramatizing the short-term impact of the mistake?

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

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Business Should Focus on Sociality, Not Social "Media"

Harvard Business Review

In short, sometimes, fashion is the opposite of style, and falling victim to its whims is a cringe-worthy error of vanity. You're going to have to learn to get serious about what matters to people — in the terms that count to them. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose.

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