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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.