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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

American Express – The credit card company that originally delivered parcels across the country. You need to innovate immediately. However, others will operate in a vastly different fashion. Marriot Hotels – Began as a street-side root beer stand. Samsung – This electronics king got started by exporting noodles and dried fish.

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

Instead, he suggests to you, in an extraordinarily inarticulate fashion, what you want to do yourself.”. They parcel out their observations carefully. The sort of coaching that fosters effective innovation and judgment, not merely the replication of technique, may not be so easy to cultivate.

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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. How does New York’s fashion industry continually pull off Fashion Week year after year? They make modifications to dresses in real time under enormous deadline pressures.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. That’s part and parcel of Mary’s success, and the rest of the team plays well together, too.” Innovation is always the product of teaming. They play well as a team.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'