Strategy & Management

✒ The social experiment continues.

✒ Too big an opportunity to pass up.

✒ A good read about how the company has evolved over the years.

✒ The last point is an interesting one.

✒ Game-ifying volunteer work as a business model.

✒ Profits boosted by lean-and-mean tactics may not be sustainable in the long run.

✒ Loose lending standards; 2. Unusually high leverage; 3. Transactions without value.

✒ It’s a long read but worth it.

✒ 33 percent of acquired workers leave in the first year of their startup’s purchase.

✒ A con­densed time­line forces selling at the wrong time, when a com­pany is down on its luck or before it has had time to achieve its full potential.

✒ Shares buyback: should companies time the market?

✒ It’s to their ad­van­tage to put their mouth where their money is.

✒ Take everything with a grain of salt.

✒ Will see how it plays out.

✒ Becoming Dr. Amazon.

✒ What’s yours?

✒ Changing responsibilities, unchanged perceptions.

✒ 2: “…make more and better investments than the ones already anticipated by investors or to increase—beyond expectations—the profits being earned on existing investments. Beating expectations as expectations evolve is what matters.” #7: “…thanks to the commonly cited assertion that most deals destroy value. It is true that more than 50% of deals simply transfer … Read More

✒ And the water underneath.

✒ Negotiate.