Scale as Competitive Advantage: When Scale is your ultimate weapon, and How to use it — Evergreen Business Fortnightly — Medium
In some industries, scale is a distinct advantage and a clear competitive advantage. In others, scale creates unnecessary overhead and fragility that leads to larger companies being continually beaten by smaller competitors.
Experiential learning: What’s missing in most change programs | McKinsey & Company
Successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages the intimate link between knowledge and experience.
How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover
We all want it both ways: to get what we want from a tough negotiation and to walk away with our relationship intact. The good news is that kind of outcome is possible. But how exactly do you drive a hard bargain while also employing soft skills? How do you advocate for what you want without burning important bridges?
Google's name change sounds crazy but it's been done before - Fortune
Unilever and United Technologies are parent companies over some of America’s most popular brands, and the strategy has helped the companies grow ...
Italy's "ghost" hotel, 61 years old without a single guest - Fortune
Thought this would more likly happen in Greece .... The 300-room hotel in Italy has had more than one “grand opening,” but it hasn’t hosted a single guest.
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - NYTimes.com
On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported ...
Collaborate for Real - hbr.org
As business buzzwords go, “collaborate” and its derivatives are surely modern favorites. Applying for a job? Emphasize your collaboration skills. Courting customers? Promise a collaborative relationship. Wooing new hires or investors? Talk up your collaborative culture ...
Does Deciding to Seek Advice Signal Weakness?
If you face a tough problem and are concerned about how others view you, do you ask for advice, or do you try to find an answer on your own?
Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist — Krebs on Security
Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly common scam in which crooks spoof communications from executives at the victim firm in a bid to initiate unauthorized international wire transfers.
32 charged in $100M insider-trading hacking plot
U.S. authorities have arrested five suspected insider traders with links to hackers in Ukraine. Bloomberg's Mike Riley explains how the hackers infiltrated servers of press release wires to collect company data ahead of public announcements ....