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Midsize Companies Shouldn’t Confuse Growth with Scaling

Harvard Business

During the 2008 recession, midcap companies proved surprisingly tough: Fully 82% of them survived to see the recovery (only 57% of small businesses made it through), and midcap companies added an average of 20 jobs each while big businesses were shedding thousands of jobs. trillion in private sector GDP.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.