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5 Ways Success is Holding You Back

Let's Grow Leaders

When you succeed at something big, was it due to the market, the price, the positioning, the long hours, the social media campaign, the right leadership, the right employees? Elizabeth Gilbert wrestles with this challenge in her TED talk: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. The combined market value of those four companies? It has been a great 20 years for U.S. Scripps, McClatchy, and A.H.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant.

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. Have a challenging mission.