How Cost Leadership Builds powerful Businesses, and Why it Always Matters — Evergreen Business Weekly — Medium
I think this is a must read article. Singapore Airlines have made an art out of cost leadership, whilst retaining price premium - worth thinking about this quote: "There are two kinds of companies: Those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second" — Jeff Bezos
One Rubric Changed Box's Engineering Performance — Here's How - First Round Review
Known as “the man behind Google Docs,” Sam Schillace has quite literally changed the way teams work together. Now as SVP of Engineering at Box, he’s applying the same systematic, collaborative thinking to build a culture of extremely high performance — all while doubling the size of the company's engineering organization ...
The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman
Sam Altman comments on: I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem hollow, but here is a cleaned up version of my answer ...
5 Ways to Boost Mindfulness Even on Busy Days
Not sure about this, but ... In our over-stimulated, technology-driven, instant-gratification filled lives, the age-old practice of mindfulness is more crucial than ever ..
TEST DRIVE: Caterpillar’s low-tech, K2 dozer automation allows GPS-like machine control without the price
Not many of us interested in Digger driving, but it makes you think if they can automate and assist this kind of work, what about the impact on productivity and the price of semi skilled labour ....
Handling Emotional Outbursts on Your Team - HBR
Liane Davey is the vice president of team solutions at Knightsbridge Human Capital. Her new book is You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done, and has some ideas about how to handle ....
The four global forces breaking all the trends | McKinsey & Company
The world economy’s operating system is being rewritten. In this exclusive excerpt from the new book No Ordinary Disruption, its authors explain the trends reshaping the world and why leaders must adjust to a new reality.
Ten things I learned studying ten of the world’s fastest growing startups - Quartz
When we launched GrowthHackers.com back in late September, we had a notion of doing “growth teardowns” of the fastest growing startups. We wanted to answer the question that everyone on the outside of these rocketships wanted to know the answer to: “How did they grow so fast?” So we set to work doing deep research dives on companies like Uber, Snapchat, Yelp, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Evernote ...
The "definitive" definition of "Business Development"
Confusion around the term “Business Development”