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Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
Technology enables velocity—the speed of getting products to market, the speed of delivery, the speed of analytics, and the list goes on. The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Instead, you want to quickly follow the first movers who are trying to capitalize on a blossoming trend.
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.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
The idea is to fast-forward a project, so you can see what the end result might look like and how the market will react. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. The sprint corrects these problems.
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.
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.
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