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Air, Water, Food

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Of course, if there are too many crises in an organization, you will never get to Water, and that will only keep you going slightly longer than losing Air. . “Water” initiatives are what you need to build the business once you are certain the Air around you is sustainable. Own the clock. Always own the clock.

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Days of Empathy

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The challenge he agreed to tackle was similar to another he had turned around, and I asked him if his approach was likely to follow the same course. Recently I was reviewing a difficult business situation with one of our company’s top problem-solvers.

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The Root Word of Contemporary Is Temporary

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Of course things are different. Just when you think your expert knowledge is unequaled, it can become wildly obviated. There are four very scary words that pop up every few years that I caution you to approach with skepticism: “This time is different.”. We live in a high-stakes world of volatile change.

LEAN 97
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Is Facebook the Next AOL?

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I am suggesting that it could if Facebook does not radically rethink its business in real time and take immediate action to course correct. Of course it seems like a great idea to be closer to our friends and meet new people along the way, but if that compromises our privacy and personal security, is it worth it?

Course 57
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Blog Begets 100

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I tried to get the URL for that but of course could not, so I added Radio and there you have it, a bit of nonsense referencing radio on the internet. What Google sees matters, and what Google indexes is the whole shooting match (plus good writing, of course).

Course 40
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Who’s Really Sitting at the Top of Every Organizational Chart

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Long before the debate raged on whether private offices had run their course of usefulness—and just how truly dreadful the industrial cubicle could be—company leaders were debating the “optimal” way to arrange organizational charts in the Information Age.

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The Many Lessons of Andy Grove

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For many years he co-taught a course in strategy with my dear friend Robert Burgelman at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He wrote the legendary book Only the Paranoid Survive , published in 1996 and still a must-read for anyone who wants to understand innovation and the power of creative destruction.