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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep. I was hired by a large insurance company as a summer intern where Deloitte was leading a large consulting engagement.

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Grossly Distorted Procedures: Mish Proposal to Raise GDP Calculation

MishTalk

One of the reasons I ask is the latest push by countries to include prostitution and drugs sales in GDP calculations. Italy : Cocaine Sales to Boost Italian GDP in Boon for Budget. Methodological changes, such as counting weapons as an "investment" represents 1.55 That''s cumulative, not additive.