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*Leadership and the Value of Exploring Beyond Your Door

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a certain kind of freedom associated with living out on the open water. And, if you are a leader in any capacity and haven’t yet thought beyond the boundaries of your balance sheet, you may be wise to better develop the muscle that will stimulate your own “ unquenchable desire for answers”. That’s what I think anyway.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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How the Internet is Shaping Our "Global Brain"

Harvard Business Review

This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences. It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain.

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

As I wrote in Little Bets , when his first store opened in Seattle in 1986, there was non-stop opera music, menus in Italian, and no chairs. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch , Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company. billion in 2012.

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