Terry Starbucker
JANUARY 13, 2013
In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2018
Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. SWAT teams achieve something similar through cross-training.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 24, 2017
Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 13, 2015
With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 4, 2013
As a consultant, I've been trained to sniff out underlings who can only say no (and aren't authorized to say yes), and strategically work to evade them. And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Several years ago I sat down with the CEO of a fast-growing retail business. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2012
Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. I'd say: yesterday's social media superstars turned out to be a little like today's meggings: fashionable mistakes many would rather pretend didn't really happen.
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