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Ah, the power of the Press… Draw your own conclusions about objectivity and responsibility. Foxconn’s factories in China assemble many Apple’s products, and Apple accounts to more than 50% of Foxconn’s revenues. On Feb 20, Financial Times{: target=’_blank’} reported that Foxconn had implemented a hiring freeze at its factories in China. Financial Times attributed the freeze to a slowdown in Apple’s iPhone 5 production. After the news release by FT, Apple’s stock price fell 2%. Read more...

Entrepreneur and writer Derek Sivers gives some real-world advice on networking. It’s all who you know? An approach to customer segmentation. Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, explains job-to-be-done analysis in this video excerpt (4 min) from Innovation Summit 2009. Gender Binding. Glenn Fleishman, Executive Editor at The Magazine writes about gender imbalance among writers. In order to get more women to write for The Magazine (five of six articles are written by men), Glenn tries to understand what is keeping women from pitching articles. Read more...

This SlideShare presentation of Netflix’s organizational culture is worth watching. Some excerpts: Processes… Most companies curtail freedom as they get bigger. (…) Desire for bigger positive impact creates growth, growth increases complexity. Growth also often shrinks talent density. Chaos emerges. Business has become too complex to run informally with this [low] talent level. Process emerges to stop the chaos. No one loves process, but feels good compared to the pain of caos. Read more...

Not everybody is equally qualified for every job. But you shouldn’t write people off for the wrong reasons. When those that we’ve chosen to teach and lead write off people because of what they look like or where they live or who their parents are, it’s a tragedy. Worse, we often write people off merely because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that they have no ability to do more than they’ve been assigned. Read more...

Leadership is about pushing others so that they give the best they have, sometimes things that they didn’t thought they were able to do. To get the best out of others, however, you have to get them out of their comfort zone. More important, if you want to do great work, you have to force yourself, or put yourself in a position where you are forced to do things you thought impossible. Read more...