The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“For example, Mark Zuckerberg adopted the mantra ‘move fast and break things’ at Facebook until 2004, while Travis Kalanick listed ‘toe stepping’ and ‘principled confrontation’ among Uber’s corporate values.” Both Uber and 23andMe later resumed operations with revised business models.

Hotels 72

Hotels Business Model Constraint Innovation 72

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It brings executive leaders to a quiet place where they can see the value of stopping, looking, listening and feeling, allowing intuition to enter decisions, using connection to drive operations, welcoming the change that becomes or evolves, in line with a whole new menu of rewards that corporations of the future will embrace.

Open-book 276

Open-book Ethics Leadership Styles Entrepreneur 276

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 267

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 267

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A new Booz study — actually, a repeat of one it did in 2004 — once again came up with the same result. Nor, Deepwater Horizon notwithstanding, accidents or other operational problems like suppy chain or customer service disruptions. The culprit wasn’t external shocks like the Great Recession.

Company 15

Company Retail Outsourcing Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees. Something had to be done. But Intuit isn’t a small business.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100