This is an interesting research by Herminia Ibarra and Morten Hansen published in HBR on 20th Jan 2010. The insights Ibarra and Hansen provided are pretty much related to the age factor and entry to the executiveship. The research had concluded that CEO’s with MBAs are stronger, if they become CEO’s before year 2000 and were younger than 50 yrs old....

Thought nothing new Johnson brought, however, it is provocative to refresh and reconsider. “Quick: Describe your company’s business model. Having trouble? That wouldn’t surprise me. In reality, there isn’t really any consensus about what the term “business model” even means. Suggestions range from the all-encompassing,...

How could possibly Goodnight be mistaken? or  just lucky? running a 13,000 employee company with $2.2 billions in revenue has no room whatsoever for luck. I can not imagine unless that this man is just a superhero, or in more simplistic form, he is a leader. He is not alone and he is not the one. We had hundreds of similar unique and universal successes around the...

Very interesting! Can’t imagine how sales breakthroughs could possibly come from such little tweaking of your product or service. I like personally the example of putting shopping carts in the middle of shopping center since I so often avoid going back to the front to get one! The Three-Minute-Rule is insightful! ” At our venture capital firm, Cue Ball,...

Adam Hartung produced an interesting; yet controversial piece in customer management. For decades, mottos as ‘customer is always right’, ‘ follow the customer’ and similar practices and focus on voices of customers overwhelmed managers, leaders and products innovators and designers. Companies used to continually listen to customers, alter...

Simplicity and the Hedgehog! what a subject to blog about. As I am going through the best performing CEO’s in the decade by HBR, I kept wondering about the single utmost important thing these CEO’s mastered, which put their names there!. What’s the difference between HBR 100 most performing CEO’s and CEO’s in the rest of the world,...