“What if there is some hidden force that is working against your best efforts? What if this force is operating inside your own company, with the full support of your executive team, your board of directors, your investors, and indeed…
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Book Report: Escape Velocity
Tagged with: asymmetry, Category Maturity Life Cycle, Clayton Christensen, complex systems, Escape Velocity, Geoffrey Moore, Google, HBR, inertia, innovation, portfolio management, provocation-based selling, roadmap, target market initiatives, technology, Technology Adoption Life Cycle, The Innovator's Dilemma, Three Horizons Model, vision, volume architecture, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
“Nobody cares. And they are right not to care. A great reason for failing won’t preserve one dollar for your investors, won’t save one employee’s job, or get you one new customer. It especially won’t make you feel one bit…
Tagged with: Andy Grove, Ben Horowitz, Business 2.0, CEOs, Good to Great, Google Glass, High Output Management, innovation, Jack Welch, lay-offs, Lessons from the Top, management debt, Marc Andreessen, Mark Organ, Michael Ovitz, Opsware, personnel management, Print the Legend, Sandvine, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, vision, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
How to define and dominate your billion dollar category
For anything truly innovative and new, the category has to start from nothing and grow into something. [Mark Organ, formerly co-founder and CEO of Eloqua and now co-founder and CEO of Influitive, recently joined us to share his ideas about…
Tagged with: category creation, demand generation, disruption, Eloqua, Influitive, innovation, Mark Organ, mission, Salesforce, Tesla, transformation, vision
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Maximize Your Impact: Get the Best Return on Energy
[This post is part of a series on increasing your effective productivity. The introductory post is My Strategies for Maximizing Impact] In the first post of this series, I said that my strategies can be captured as: Work on the things that…
Tagged with: impact, optimization, return on energy, scalability, strategies, think big, time management, vision
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Maximize Your Impact: Work on Things That Matter Most
You can exhaust yourself just keeping up with your inbox, and you won’t make a big difference. [This post is part of a series on increasing your effective productivity. The introductory post is My Strategies for Maximizing Impact] In the first…
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