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It's going to be very difficult to distinguish yourself with a truthful claim about having returns in the high teens when everyone else is bragging about returns that are orders of magnitude greater.
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August 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Instead of officially lowering its prices, Apple is in talks with retailers and banks to offer holiday deals all year round, according to people familiar with the plans. Those people say Apple is also asking some individual stores to more than quadruple sales targets, to...
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August 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Although it is a user’s responsibility to inform themselves of a browser’s features by actually reading the disclosures, the authors assert that these texts need to be written better. They note that only “participants who saw the Chrome or [older version of the] Chrome disclosure...
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August 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Face-to-face interactions, as measured by the sociometric badges, emerged as a strong negative predictor of success in the competition.
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June 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Mr Musk’s other thoughts on improving productivity include avoiding large meetings – which he says are the “blight of big companies”. “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time,” he wrote. BBC News, April 18, 2018...
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May 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA), made a big admission on the afternoon of April 13th. Apparently channeling the Friday the 13th horror spirit, Musk announced via tweet that the electric car manufacturer had over-automated its production process: “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake....
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May 11, 2018 Bruce Benson
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The lack of open discussion and debate was always a good indicator that the organization was beginning to fail.
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February 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Elon to a meeting member: "You haven't said anything. Why are you in here?"
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November 30, 2017 Bruce Benson
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and quizzed the company over how it was responding to Skylake problems. “Lenovo was confused,” claims Thurrott. “No one was having any issues.” It appears Microsoft’s own problems were the result of the company’s unique approach...
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September 21, 2017 Bruce Benson
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Take time to explain why you believe something — not just what you believe and why your opponent is wrong. So how did Bastian switch over from home birth advocate to home birth critic? It started with conversations with researchers in Sydney, who were compassionate...
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July 26, 2017 Bruce Benson
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The other thing that I love looking at is how much time am I spending in meetings vs. what I would call focused time. You absolutely need to be in meetings, because, after all, you don’t do a CEO’s job by locking yourself in your...
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September 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
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[Ellen] Pao has also raised an incident in which one of the firm’s senior partners, former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane, asked her and another female colleague to take notes at a partners meeting. “I just froze, I wasn’t sure what to do,” Pao testified on...
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March 31, 2015 Bruce Benson
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In my case, in 1999 I arrived in Japan and had to face the turnaround of Nissan. The fact that I wasn’t Japanese and was a newcomer to the industry helped me. People knew I wasn’t involved in the industry’s past. I dismantled keiretsu [interlinked...
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January 27, 2015 Bruce Benson
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“But Bruce,” the senior scientist said to me in front of the meeting “your experience may not be the definitive one.”
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November 10, 2014 Bruce Benson
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More lessons learned and blame shared from the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange failure.
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September 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
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