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In the realm of high tech, pragmatist CEOs are not common, and those there are, true to their type, tend to keep a relatively low profile. Dan Warmenhoven at NetApp, Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn, John Chen at Sybase, John Donahoe at eBay, even such visible leaders as Meg Whitman at HP and Michael Dell at Dell—low on drama, high on integrity and commitme
... See moreGeoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
Returning to a culture that allows more separation between specialized and administrative work is crucial to moving past the hyperactive hive mind and significantly improving productivity.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
New titles might not have increased his influence. By the start of the 1960s Baker was engaged in a willfully obscure second career, much like the one Mervin Kelly had formerly conducted, a career that ran not sequentially like some men’s—a stint in government following a stint in business, or vice versa—but simultaneously, so that Baker’s various
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
“To me, a good client is a good corporate citizen, honest and good to the community,”
Bo Burlingham • Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition
But the Internet has changed that math, as Kilpi observes. “If the (transaction) costs of exchanging value in the society at large go down drastically as is happening today,” he writes, “the form and logic of economic and organizational entities necessarily need to change! The core firm should now be small and agile, with a large network.” He adds:
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