Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

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. Many don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders. Eager to change that, Gilbert encouraged her group to reach out to women customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

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. By showing the power of scale economics, he ushered in an era where behemoths created processes to spread their businesses around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

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. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. Rituals combine the power of consistency and habits with the weight of emotional significance. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. Use rituals. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot).

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