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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. Now that almost every good or service combines digital and physical, leaders need to be able to manage and drive both digital and physical in a company.” -Rob

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Humans Are Strategic; Machines Are Tactical. In other words, machines skew toward tactical applications. Such new thinking will generate a whole new human resource development agenda, one quite probably emphasizing those innate human capacities that can provide a renewed strategy for success that is both technological and human.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. He allocated 50% of his software development time to make Chatter the primary interface (analogous to the Twitter and Facebook activity streams) in Salesforce.

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The Pitfalls (and Upsides) of Partnering with Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch. Entrepreneurship'

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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business Review

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. A TAP worldview allows you to discover future markets instead of playing only in developed ones.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

That''s partly because they''re older cities with smaller land areas to manage. That could help with cutting costs and improving services, but — groovy urban farms aside — it''s not what you''d call an entirely positive development. and venture capitalist. Policy innovation.