The Growth Faculty | Take command: Empower your people to think
When you are captain of a US attack submarine, one bad command can mean life or death. This realisation led David Marquet, former navy captain, business consultant and author of Turn the Ship Around, to change the way he worked. He spoke to TGF Future Thinkers’ about busting conventional thinking about leadership.
How to Master the Craft of Strategy — Why One Decision can Make your Company and How to Get it Right — Evergreen Business Weekly — Medium
If you only read one thing in this post — it should be this section, about the book by Richard Rumelt: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy ....
Why we should aim to build a forever company, not just a unicorn at andrewchen
“Unicorn company.” It’s the latest bit of jargon that’s infected our conversations here in the Bay Area, to the point where both WSJ and Fortune have clever infographics and lists of the top companies.
Must Do: Intern Like a Rock Star
Something to pass onto people thinking about internships (something that we should encourage).
Guy Kawasaki comments: When you enter a real work environment for the first time, especially as a college student starting an internship, remember why you want to be there: First and foremost, to learn real marketable skills that can enhance your resumé and to secure a strong referral from your supervisor.
Marketplaces: Standardisation of the Presentation of Supply
In any system you get out what you put in. Online marketplaces are systems that bring together buyers and sellers. The sellers are varied and have different products. Bringing all of this product together on one platform is how a marketplace provides choice for consumers.
Summary: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
We all want to succeed. One path to success is identifying the habits that can help us on our journey.
One way to start the path is reading Stephen Covey’s best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ...
How Great Unit Economics Enables Startups to Weather the Storm - The Story of WebEx
In the late 90s, one company changed its name five times before they settled on one which today is a well-known brand ....
I was an undercover Uber driver :: Cover :: Philadelphia City Paper
Uber's been impossible to avoid in Philly news since October, when it debuted its UberX service, staffed by drivers without commercial licenses, against the direct requests and then angry protests of everyone involved in local taxi and limousine regulation ....
Jim Collins - Articles - Pulling the Plug
Decide what to stop doing, Jim Collins blogs about Entrepreneurs by their nature tend to be active, constantly doing, going ever forward. That makes sense. Creating a great company requires immense amounts of doing. Yet all that doing diverts us from an equally important and powerful aspect of making progress: deciding what to stop doing.
What Boeing can teach the software industry about timelessness - diginomica
SUMMARY: Boeing has to reduce the TCO of its aircraft by 1% every year over the product lifecycle. Why don’t all companies do the same ...
How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO's Can Transform Your Business | Bothsides of the Table
What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market ...
Microsoft Windows goes versionless - no more fretting about upgrades? - diginomica
SUMMARY: Windows is going DevOps and continuous delivery with Windows, which theoretically means fretting about versions will be a thing of the past. You’ll all have the latest and greatest as it happens. So why is Microsoft so reticent to push this?