From my esteemed colleague: Posted by: Gideon Markman Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) URL: http://www.gideonmarkman.com Location: http://www.gideonmarkman.com Lose the concept of "lasting" and instead, think resilience. 1) Many of the… Read more »
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From my esteemed colleague: Posted by: Gideon Markman Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) URL: http://www.gideonmarkman.com Location: http://www.gideonmarkman.com Lose the concept of "lasting" and instead, think resilience. 1) Many of the… Read more »
Insight from a current project: Managing Complexity
I’m having a lot of fun working with my colleague, Gokce Sargut on a project for how you can comprehend and function in complex environments. One of the insights from our research that I though… Read more »
A perfect course for those in financial services right now
I’m just digging out after spending a week with some fantastic participants at our course Leading Strategic Growth and Change. We suffered a bit from the “ash” fallout as many potential participants couldn’t make it… Read more »
Reflecting on Built to Last
In an article published six years ago now, a Fast Company writer asks the question “were built to last companies built to last?”. Built to Last is, of course, a bible to many practicing executives… Read more »
The top tech companies have money to burn
My colleague, Ian MacMillan, sent along a link to a fascinating chart. Basically, it says that if you are a leading technology company you have rather a lot of cash to spend, while everybody else… Read more »
At long last - a baggage charge that makes sense
Halleluja! That was my response on learning from today's New York Times that Spirit Airlines is going to start charging people to carry on bags that go into the overhead bins. I know this will… Read more »
At long last – a baggage charge that makes sense
Halleluja! That was my response on learning from today's New York Times that Spirit Airlines is going to start charging people to carry on bags that go into the overhead bins. I know this will… Read more »
The current state of “Skunkworks”
It’s a time-honored tradition in the corporate innovation literature – the idea of a hardy band of people who work in a way that is separate from the mother organization to bring into being a… Read more »
Things are looking up – some statistics from McKinsey
For those of you that haven’t been following the “are we there yet” discussions in the blogosphere, a colleague thoughtfully sent me this link to a recent McKinsey study. The study opens with the following:… Read more »
Identifying Key Metrics for your business
Hello all— We’ve had a few requests to reprint our guidance on identifying key metrics for your business, which is a crucial bit of analysis to perform in order to get at the core dimensions… Read more »
Venture Capital’s Struggle
Well, the VC business just isn’t what it was. Blame Sarbanes-Oxley for making IPO exits harder. Blame the popularity of VC (and private equity funding) which is now attracting ever-larger tranches of financing. Blame the… Read more »