Danaher’s Instruments of Change
Danaher: Highly focused and diversified, this industrial company grows through acquisition, customer-facing innovation, and continuous improvement.
^ADJ: The former CEO has just become CEO and Chair of GE - it will be interesting to see how he goes in turning around the ship ...
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman is one of Silicon Valley’s grown-ups. After helping to found PayPal, he moved on to found LinkedIn, in 2002, which has turned him into a billionaire. He was an early investor in Facebook and now serves as a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock. He’s written two books, The Start-Up of You (with Ben Casnocha) and The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age (with Casnocha and Chris Yeh).
Understanding History: A Review of the 2008 Financial Crisis
As we look back at the events of 2008, we invite you to explore some of the crisis-era research and decision making that enabled our investment team to understand what drove the market and helped us weather the greatest financial storm of a generation.
Managing business growth strategies | McKinsey
^ADJ: Sequencing of growth initiatives appears intuitive, some thinking here to challenge
To boost organic growth, most companies need a diverse set of initiatives—and how you sequence them matters.
What Your Customer Wants
To be a successful key account manager or even just an effective salesperson, you need to understand the wants and needs of your customers. With this in mind, being a salesperson and a key account manager are two different roles altogether, and your customers will expect different things ...
The annoying habits of highly effective people - Bartleby
.... Some executive habits may be harmless, such as the preference of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg to wear the same outfit every day. But the danger is that a leader’s eccentricities and views become so embedded in the culture that they damage the business in the long run.