Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. And long before Jobs, there was George Bernard Shaw’s classic assertion that “All progress depends on the unreasonable [person].” CB: Unconventional thinkers are often portrayed as rebels.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Like the generations preceding them, Millennials are products of the major events and technologies that became widespread during their formative years. Recently a survey was conducted that asked preteens about their long term career aspirations - the top three were sports star, pop star and actor.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

My parents taught me this concept at a young age, and it was reinforced through sports. First, you must do whatever must be done to produce the best long-term results for the company, regardless of how difficult it may be. Great athletes recognize the need to do whatever is necessary for the long-term interests of the team.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) No one remains a leader long without being competent. People will not long support someone who's going nowhere. link] Mike Henry Sr. Great reminder Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Other areas where machine intelligence could soon be commonly used include: Career planning. Automated programs can recognize products, people, logos, and more.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers? How has a club that is based in one of Europe's unemployment blackspots turned itself into the ruling power in the world's most popular sports?" the magazine asked. "An

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To tackle the challenge, companies should emphasize cross-functional collaboration, evaluate and prioritize data product opportunities with an eye to the long-term, and start simple. Data products are a team sport. Too much focus on near-term performance can yield underinvestment in promising medium- or long-term opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

If things don't go your way when you're launching a new strategy, or pitching a long-shot idea to a skeptical investor, don't relegate yourself gloomily to a future in middle management. Checkbox 4: Are you being "Macromyopic" and overdramatizing the short-term impact of the mistake? Checkbox 2: Was My Own Standard Reasonable?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

And while the differences are aplenty between college basketball and professional hoops, this sports season got us thinking about the business of athletics. Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Nike could provide you with its traditional sports gear, but in addition it could include a training program, a dietary plan, a coach, and a monitoring system to help you achieve your dream. It even applies its smart sensor technology to teeth brushing. Faced with this changing reality, Philips took a long, hard look at itself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. Learning is not a spectator sport. Also, relieving trainees of work duties signals a commitment to an employee’s career growth which can reap benefits in terms of long-term employee loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. What follows are edited excerpts from our conversation, starting with Barksdale’s account of where the bundling aphorism came from: Barksdale: It actually was a quote at the end of a very long road show when we were taking Netscape public, a trip through Europe that ended in London.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. Choose Mentees Carefully.

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