Kevin Maney
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It's the dawn of the 1990s, and the Soviet Union is crumbling and beginning to haphazardly experiment with capitalism. Jeff Teneson, an impetuous yet struggling American management consultant, thinks he sees an opportunity to travel to Moscow to cut deals, make money and finally prove himself. But as soon as he lands there, Jeff gets caught in a tug of war between two newly-formed and rickety Moscow businesses. One is run by ex-KGB agents who still...
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For more than a century, economies of scale made the corporation an ideal engine of business. However, the emergence of platforms and technologies that can be rented as needed have eroded the relationship between fixed costs and output that defined economies of scale. Together, these new factors have enabled small companies to pursue niche markets and successfully challenge large established companies that are weighed down by investments in mass production,...
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What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn't his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky's brain that made him exceptional. Over the past fifteen years, scientists have found that what distinguishes the greatest musicians, athletes, and performers from the rest of us isn't just their...
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©2011
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Thomas J Watson Sr's motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company , journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O'Brien mark the Centennial of IBM's founding by examining how IBM has distinctly contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years. The authors offer a fresh analysis...
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"The old Milton Friedman philosophy that companies exist only to increase shareholder value is dying. The most successful companies will increase the value of life on this planet. ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) are measurements. But how do you build a company so that it ranks high in ESG, adheres to those ideals, and performs better than companies that don't? In The End of Unintended Consequences, Hemant Taneja: lays out the...
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The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game-defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best...