Jeff Bezos
Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeh McGraw-Hill (October 2015) Here are 16 mini-case studies that demonstrate the physics of accelerated commercial growth I think this book’s subtitle is a…
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David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, he received his Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis…
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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Valuable lessons to be learned from those who “paved an extraordinary path as the first…
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking Rowan Gibson John Wiley & Sons (2o15) How to establish a culture within which everyone’s abilities are free to enrich high-impact innovation throughout the enterprise First of all, I…
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BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are exponential tools and techniques as well as key modes of thinking to solve large-scale (insoluble?) global problems There…
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The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance Jim Blasingame SBN Books (2014) How and why all of a company’s initiatives must be in proper alignment to accommodate its customers’ expectations As I worked my way through…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an especially important article by George Packer for The New Yorker in which in which discusses whether or not Jeff Bezos and Amazon are good for the book publishing industry. Opinions are sharply divided…
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Rich Karlgaard is an angel investor, board director and Wall Street Journal best-selling author as well as the longtime publisher (since 1998) of Forbes magazine. He also writes the Forbes column, “Innovation Rules,” which is known for its witty assessment…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Derek Thompson for The Atlantic. In it, he discusses why investors love Jeff Bezos’s global-everything store, even though they aren’t making any money from it yet—and it’s not clear how they…
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Mini-Profiles of Four Great “Persuadables”
Those who are persuadable have a mindset that is both willing and able – indeed eager — to consider diverse perspectives, especially those that challenge their cherished assumptions and premises. The healthiest organizations are those in which principled dissent is…
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