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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin had spent the last decade reinventing this sleepy bank—revamping the bank’s finances, providing liquidity to investors, raining new capital, and doubling down on operational efficiencies—and turning the organization into a regional bank that people truly admired. One thing was certain in Darrin’s mind. The mission must continue.

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. A platform investment model is fundamentally different from the efficiency model that drives most platforms today.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Moving past these “digital plateaus” will require a conscious effort by these countries to reinvent themselves, to bet on a rising digital technology in which it has leadership, and to eliminate impediments to innovation.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage. Important to note, however, is that that only those who perform well enough qualify to participate.