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A noble corporate purpose — that is, one aimed at doing something good in the world … is best found at the intersection of four areas: the human needs the company would like to address; the company’s unique capabilities; what the company’s employees are passionate about; and how the company can create economic value. Exploring these areas and their intersection requires solid fact finding and … [ Read more ]
— Hubert Joly

Author: Hubert Joly | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Goals, Management, Organizational Behavior

The analytical approach will get you a lot of singles and doubles. But the home runs really come from those intuitive calls on how you think the market and the world is going to work and betting in that direction.
— Tara Seshan

Author: Tara Seshan | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Strategy

What separates the best from the rest? In elite sports, it’s the ability to consistently make the most of all elements affecting performance, from athletes’ fitness, strength, agility, and mindset to the playing conditions and technological sophistication of equipment. Little things count when a fraction of a second makes all the difference.

The same holds true for top-performing companies. Getting some elements right can make you … [ Read more ]
— Mohamed Kande, Julien Courbe, Tom Puthiyamadam, David Allen, Nikki Parham, Lang Davison

Authors: David Allen, Julien Courbe, Lang Davison, Mohamed Kande, Nikki Parham, Tom Puthiyamadam | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Management

When I feel myself not communicating as clearly as I would like to, not using precise language, with a single person, a group of people, or an audience on TV, generally, it means that I haven’t understood two things completely.

“What specifically am I trying to communicate?” and “Have I properly understood the details of that subject and how I’m going to express myself on them?”

[…] … [ Read more ]
— Ros Atkins

Author: Ros Atkins | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Write down every person you work with, their biggest need, and their most ideal “OMG this makes my life so much better!” Now you have a list of your organization’s greatest needs and solutions. Now, decide if filling any of these needs aligns with you (Hint: If you’re excited about it, that’s usually the right mark).
— Davit Balagyozyan

Author: Davit Balagyozyan | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Career, Management

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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The Economist

As for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore Roosevelt

The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts

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