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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. Marketing and internal IT expertise are both at the table.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. everyone met again to review what they''d done. The development team was extremely cohesive. Everyone who joined the team had to leave his or her job for four months. At 7:45 a.m.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition. Inspiring innovation by democratizing design.

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