How to Manage Scale, and Operate in Scaling Organizations — Evergreen Business Fortnightly — Medium
In researching scale, I’ve seen it referred to as a beast, chaos, and a black art. Quickly scaling is the ultimate test for managers and company builders: In fast-moving companies with high stakes, can you operate effectively enough to build a strong, enduring organization?
Why WPP's annual report is a Buffett-esque read - Fortune
In the nearly five decades I have been reading annual reports, I cannot recall a year when any company came close to matching Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters and reports on Berkshire Hathaway. His wisdom, his honesty and his wit have made his letters must reading ...
Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU - Bloomberg Business
As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and four other executives from the Internet search giant were meeting in a conference room at the newly opened InterContinental, a golden, egg-shaped structure nestled incongruously in the snowcapped Swiss Alps. They hoped to finalize a settlement with Joaquín Almunia, the European Union’s powerful competition czar and Google’s primary legal adversary for the previous four years ...
Zombie Private Equity Funds Sit on $127 Billion Asset Pile - Private Equity Beat - WSJ
Zombie private equity funds are sitting on nearly 60% more unrealized assets than they were two years ago. Firms that have failed to make exits from their portfolios but continue to survive on management fees—known as zombie funds—have $126.6 billion worth of assets in their portfolios to exit, according to data provide Preqin Ltd., paving the way for a rise in complex restructuring deals.
Sewage flow becomes Williston's oil bust indicator | Reuters
The population of a U.S. oil boomtown that became a symbol of the fracking revolution is dropping fast because of the collapse in crude oil prices, according to an unusual metric: the amount of sewage produced.
What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape - HBR
Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them ...
The story of .io | Citizen Ex
.io is one of the fastest-growing top-level domains on the internet, a particular favourite among start-ups and technology companies. It's also one of the most expensive.
Android fragmentation report: There are now 24,093 distinct devices, up 28% from last year | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Paul Sawers
While Google has moved to cure the much-maligned Android fragmentation problem, there are more Android devices than ever out there in the wild, according to data from OpenSignal. The problem? Too many different versions of Android on too many different form-factors, which can cause developers headaches when building apps for the many different devices ....