Don’t Be A Man
Success was not a problem, I was told, as long as I fit in and did the same as everyone else.
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Our Best Opportunities May Be With The Team We Have
When we’d removed the influences that pulled an organization down, we didn’t have to crack the whip to get people going again.
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Lessons Learned From Finally Using Medical Big Data
In today’s atomized medical system, it can take 10 to 20 years for a major treatment advance to become ubiquitous.
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Nobody Is Healthy, You Just Need To Be Tested More
Intensely monitoring healthy individuals could make them less well, not more.
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How To Avoid Battling The Cleanup Squad And Get Something Done Instead
Rather than accept their view of his business, the CEO shouted at them for wasting his time.”
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The Rapid Adoption Of Change — Takes Time
I found a great insight, that doesn’t show up that often, in the following article in my research archives. Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne (an Agile vendor) was quoted: “I think there might have been this anticipation five years ago that agile would take...
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Success Is Often Counter To What Everyone Else Is Doing
Everything Tesla did was unique for the auto industry. If you go back to Apple 15 years ago everything we did there was counter to the industry as well.
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Top Down Or Bottom Up
We have a bias that everything has to be done in precise and perfect ways.
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We Solved The Hard Problems
“We had solved a lot of the hard problems, “ says Jeff Hammerbacher, one of the first data scientists at Facebook, who left in 2008 to start Cloudera, which makes data analytics software. “I kind of knew what it would look like in five years,...
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How To Successfully Manage Fast Unexpected Changes
The other fly in the petroleum jelly is the risk of a financial crackup such as Russia’s 1998 default. “You will always have financial risks associated with fast, unexpected changes,” says Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Oil’s Price...
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Boy, Are You Behind The Times
IT used to be sold to CIOs. Now an employee adopts a piece of software and pushes his company to do the same. An Expense App to Hook Road Warriors, Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec 15, 2014. I had found a program called “Packrat” which was a...
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Overcome The Culture
At Jet, there will be no annual performance reviews, because [Marc] Lore thinks feedback should be immediate and civil. … And Lore isn’t making any of his employees sign noncompetes; he says that … without such stipulations “there’s more loyalty and trust that is built.”...
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Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way
For advanced economies, innovation requires pushing on the frontiers of science and technology. That can’t happen without heavy government funding for basic research … The Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS) are only two of the crucial technologies that originated as projects of the...
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Lessons Learned From Fighting Ebola
[Doctors Without Borders] is able to move so swiftly, in large part, because of its decentralized structure, which is more akin to a guerilla network than a top-down corporation. How To Manage A Plague, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nov 17, 2014. Contrary to such notable initiatives such...
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It’s Simple, Just Look At The Results
“I was very worried when an insider was chosen as the new CEO. I was especially worried when suboptimal execution continued: missed delivery dates, buggy products, weak marketing.” The Rise And Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History. Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec 9, 2013. The product looks...
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