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The Benefits of Losing a Star Employee (Temporarily)

Michael Roberto

The scholars obtained statistical data on individual and team performance in the National Basketball Association from 1991-2015. Should you send your star employee to that leadership development program or other professoinal development opportunity? The improved routines and teamwork lead to higher performance when the star returns.

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

2 – In March, 2010 AdAge ran a column about WalMart being “stuck in the middle” and effectively becoming the competitive “bulls-eye” of retailing. 3 – In October, 2010 Fortune ran an article profiling then-CEO Mike Duke. The move to on-line shopping was clearly a force.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934).

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Poor Microsoft – How Good Decisions, Made Too Late, Bode Poorly for the Future

Adam Hartung

By 2010 when the iPad launched, the shift was in full swing. Previous CEO Steve Ballmer went “all-in” on trying to defend and extend the PC platform with Windows 8 which began development in 2010. In January, 2015 Microsoft started its release of Windows 10 – the product to unify all devices in one O/S.

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Possibly a Significant Shift in the Innovation Consulting World?

Paul Hobcraft

Yet this across-industry has been going against the ‘competitive’ grain when you are facing large vertical and horizontal consulting practices that claim they offer both a real depth of industry and innovation-specific knowledge. No industry is immune to disruption. This became the basis for its “future back” approach to strategy.

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Can Netflix Double Pivot to Be a Media Game Changer?

Adam Hartung

These were some really big companies that saw their market shifts, but failed to “pivot” their strategy to remain competitive. By 2010 Blockbuster was bankrupt. By 2015 the company had more than doubled its previous high valuation. By 2008 Netflix reached $1B revenues, reducing Blockbuster by a like amount.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

On hopes that a recovering economy will raise all boats, the stock recovers over the next 18 months to $113 by April, 2010. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. in 18 months.

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