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Men often falling stars…
Men Often Falling Stars, Women Continue Shining Brightly. Why? In February’s Harvard Business Review is a follow-up article stirring a bit of a backlash among men not taking the time to read. The controversy? About four years ago Boris Groysberg published an article (The Risky Business of Hiring Stars) noting that for most companies hiring away a… Continue reading →
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The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change
The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change So you think 50 is getting up there? Ready for the decline? Not any more. Average life expectancy in the US now hovers near 80, and for many of us, these become their most productive years. At 50 you’ve discovered your strengths, are comfortable in your skin, have learned… Continue reading →
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The Problem With Speed-Reading
Do you tend to scan or speed-read through material to figure out what it’s all about? Go straight to the Executive Summary, then stop? You might be saving time, but you may be missing out on some of the most interesting content. In the 2001 DNA-sequencing race between the the government and Craig Venter’s Celera Genomics, victory was declared… Continue reading →
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The bulk of time
…the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to “problems” rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results. Peter Drucker in Managing for Business Effectiveness, 1963
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The Topple Rate: How Fast Do Leading Companies Fall?
Patrick Viguerie, a McKinsey & Co. consultant, has developed what he calls the Topple Rate: a measure of how many market-leading companies lose that status during the next five years. In the early 1970s, he says, it was about 8%. By the 1997-2002 period, it had climbed to 16%. Rigorous data for the past few… Continue reading →
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Product Map, The Wealth of Nations, and Innovation
Product Map, The Wealth of Nations, and Innovation. The economic growth of poor and developing countries is dependent upon their ability to move from their first successful product to the next. Recent research revealed that traditional economic theory linking success to factors such as transportation networks or the availability of skilled/non-skilled labor is wrong. Conventional economic… Continue reading →
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Propaganda 1882 – Gauchos
Fun Ads, But Will They Work? The quirky series of video ads for 1882 (Gauchos here), an herbal digestif in Argentina, is very entertaining and offbeat. Will they work though? Or will they suffer the fate of many Superbowl commercials, with people remembering the ads, but not what they’re for? (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)