You may be the reason your company isn't growing. You are micromanaging — and it's stifling the organization you are trying to build. Our research tells us that the very management style that enables a founder to get a company off the ground — a zealous focus on tactical execution — often derails growth [...]
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market chain, has loftier goals than getting Americans to eat healthy foods, one of the missions of his grocery empire. He is out to change American business as well, putting it on the path to higher consciousness. "A Whole Foods store, in some respects, is like John [...]
Enter a growing legion of middlemen, outfits that hook up companies (anonymously, if that’s what they want) with individuals or groups that might be able to solve specific problems. Netflix, the Los Gatos, California, movie-rental outfit, did some reaching out in order to improve its Cinematch recommendation system, which uses customers’ rental histories to [...]
Not all invention needs to take us in the direction we presume to think of as forward. Sometimes backwards is forward in the same way that less is more. Not all invention needs to take us in the direction we presume to think of as forward. Sometimes backwards is forward in the same way [...]
'The less training I do with them, the better they seem to play' 'The less training I do with them, the better they seem to play,' joked the self-effacing England rugby coach Brian Ashton, whose team narrowly lost the World Cup final at the weekend. Now there’s a line to get managers everywhere thinking. [...]
Real branding isn’t a beauty contest about the most creative advertising. It's about boosting the bottom-line. Example: Marks & Spencer's revival Real brands build on deep, immersive insights. You find these out in the real world, not watching 8 strangers drinking cheap wine from behind a 2-way mirror Example: Pampers learnt from child experts [...]
