Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Fellow travelers: This is a group of people with similar goals, approaches and perceptions. Businesses often fail to spend the time and money to recruit, hire and train fellow travelers, instead, hiring what they can and then being disappointed when they try to lead. This group is led more than managed.

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Small Business Management Travel Talent 20

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. The spectacular growth of these businesses has been commonly explained by “network effects,” a common refrain among economists and academics. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 37

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. For our final project, the class was broken into small groups and each group wrote a 40 page paper examining a thesis in an industry of their choosing. Very intellectual job – can I do it?

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And billionaire Mark Cuban worked until 2 am launching his first business and didn’t take a vacation for seven years. These intense work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super-productive leader. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me.

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Conference Nonprofit Banking Groups 53

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Founder Jeff Bezos’s initial business model was fairly simple: Source a single product type from wholesalers and publishers and sell it directly to consumers on the then fledgling internet. That meant any venture would basically be a third-party seller for Indian-made products. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Retail Productivity Accenture Transportation 28