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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

It requires guidance, support, and accountability, fostering growth, development, and time-management. Managers only learn to become master coaches through on-going training, hard work, diligence, and persistence. While they knew their market, they did have the coaching know how or culture. Anybody can coach poorly.