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5 Ways Success is Holding You Back

Let's Grow Leaders

When you succeed at something big, was it due to the market, the price, the positioning, the long hours, the social media campaign, the right leadership, the right employees? Elizabeth Gilbert wrestles with this challenge in her TED talk: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating. Many don’t.

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XR in the Workplace Is Now

CEO Insider

Once considered technology of the future, extended reality (“XR”) solutions and tools have moved out of the labs and into a hot, profitable market. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article XR in the Workplace Is Now are those of the author Gilbert J. Villaflor alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders. Eager to change that, Gilbert encouraged her group to reach out to women customers. Like its rivals, Best Buy tended to sell consumer electronics from a strongly male perspective.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant.

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. The end result too frequently is the market speeds ahead of the autonomous organization. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. Why is that? Forget about quick decisions.

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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. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?