Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Software engineers, developers, and programmers must be viewed as the artists of this generation. * * *. So all you have to do is look at the industry you are in and identify all the things that are wrong with it….Next,

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 281

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Many social enterprises start small and grow fast. This puts a premium on the need to develop, or recruit, talented people who can take on evolving roles and responsibilities. Yet planning for future leadership needs falls between the cracks at most social enterprises. How do you develop, or hire, the staff you will need?

Banking 8

Banking Fast Follower Tools Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about China's leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level.

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

Consensus 8

Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

GV portfolio company Savioke found itself in this same situation: the team had spent months developing a delivery robot for hotels, but felt paralyzed by big questions about the robot’s personality and behavior. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches.

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Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8