Reed Hastings

Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite

October 21, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Warren Berger for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Crazy Is a Compliment: A book review by Bob Morris

October 28, 2014

Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…

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Silicon Valley’s most important document ever

February 7, 2013

Here is a brief article written by Janko Roettgers for GigaOM in which he discusses a statement by Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, who recently called Netflix’s famous company culture presentation “the most important document ever to come out of the…

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The Start-Up of YOU: A book review by Bob Morris

March 8, 2012

The Start-Up of YOU: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Crown Business (2012) How and why start-up mind-sets and skill-sets are essential to achieving and then sustaining success…however defined The…

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Creating Demand: The Secrets of Truly Magnetic Offers

February 1, 2012

How do some companies generate runaway growth and extraordinary customer loyalty, even in a sluggish economy? Adrian Slywotzky, an Oliver Wyman senior partner and bestselling author, examines the unpredictable dynamics of demand creation in his latest book, Demand: Creating What…

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How and Why Market Anomalies and Incongruities Can Reveal 10 Clues to Business Opportunity

September 30, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another oytstanding article that appears in strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, Donald Sull shares his insights concerning how and why market anomalies and incongruities may point the way to the next…

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