Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. Education innovators were often too focused on technology in the First Wave, and too much on content in the Second Wave. In the Third Wave innovation can happen almost anywhere—anywhere there are experts in the field your are trying to disrupt.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is messier that being the founder. You came up with an awesome idea. You started a company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

If you’ve got outside funders, they’re demanding more and better financial reporting from you, and your board is starting to breathe down your neck about preparing for an IPO. S tay in some sort of leadership role, but bring in an experienced CEO from outside. Delegating does not mean abdicating leadership responsibilities.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Great leaders have to ask: Where does your innovation come from? For Sir Richard, seeing his dream turn to ashes was a teachable moment of epic proportions—an unexpected provocation to rethink innovation in a world full of surprises. Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. Version 2.0 Pinterest: Redefining success.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pandemic brought many problems facing the business community to the forefront of people’s consciousness – owners, leadership, managers, and employees. As a result, the traditional outlook of having people work long hours and perform tasks without asking questions met a severe roadblock.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

People often join a network because they’re inspired by its purpose, whether that’s to improve a community’s school lunch program or protect a sprawling wildlife preserve. But people stay for a very different reason: who is involved. Which means who is part of a network is just as important, if not more important, than why […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The best way to make your product high end is to price it at a premium. The higher pricing creates an immediate perception of value. A lot of business owners are afraid to charge more for their product or services because they have limiting beliefs about their buyers. There are many consumers out there who […].

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. Its even 100% free!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. He's brash, colorful, outspoken — in terms of his style, he personifies the sense of freedom and innovation that drives so many businesspeople today. It's never about you. It is always about the mission.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about. So why IPO? That is, the IPO is a good way to get rich, quick. It is likely to be the largest in history (cool). It is predicated on an established business model (good), plus a future growth path into the mobile space that is uncertain ( not so good ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued. It's all down to execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued. It's all down to execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. Instead, their business journeys originated in a different place, a place we call the Heart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

What we are witnessing, and participating in, is more than an IPO. The event will sanction Mark Zuckerberg's place in the pantheon of innovative entrepreneurs who built fortunes upon technologies that changed the world, or more precisely, that changed the way people experienced and lived in the world. It's a collective rite.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Social innovation. Employee incentives. In this virtuous circle, buybacks have no role.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. An innovator? Consider the case of Norwegian Cruise Line. Were we a price cutter?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

If you haven't been invited to the White House or launched an IPO or made the cover of a national newsmagazine before age 35, there's absolutely no reason to believe you can't still accomplish those goals later in life. Are you a conceptual innovator or an experimentalist? How has that shaped your career?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world. The "smart" do, in fact, take from the "strong."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. Because they are innovative by nature, consumer tech companies need to invest heavily in research and development, which could be done if they had a portfolio of products at different stages of maturity, with some of them being established cash cows.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. When things go poorly for a nonconformist, how easy it is to call them the fool.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When Accenture asked 250 senior executives of Asian companies expanding overseas to compare their source of competitive advantage today and in three years, 55% cited high quality products and services, while 47% cited high-value innovation. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? What really makes them work? Think APIs and SDKs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Silicon Valley lore offers examples of exceptional founder-CEOs, such as Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, who were able to lead their companies through an IPO. In addition to being cultural champions, they can help remind their companies not to shift their attention too far away from product strategy and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. And companies that weren’t as focused on showcasing the innovative side of their brand, are now committing significant resources to it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

This innovation made it cheaper for carriers to deploy base stations, and was popular with European carriers. There’s a shared belief within the company that an IPO would result in only a few people getting very rich, and the majority losing their motivation. Employee Dedication.

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