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Definitely not going on my office layouts board, but this is what it's like...
PORTLAND, Maine — A small startup in Portland targeting the country’s $56 billion wedding industry has just received an infusion of capital from a group
One thousand startups will be orphaned; many will die. One billion dollars will have gone for naught. Bright young minds across the country will be out...
Reprint: R0610D Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which tools will work in a given situation and which will misfire. Cooperation tools fall into four major categories: power, management, leadership, and culture. Choosing the right tool, say the authors, requires assessing the organization along two critical dimensions: the extent to which people agree on what they want and the extent to which they agree on cause and effect, or how to get what they want. The authors plot on a matrix where various organizations fall along these two dimensions. Employees represented in the lower-left quadrant of the model, for example, disagree strongly both about what they want and on what actions will produce which results. Those in the upper-right quadrant agree on both dimensions. Different quadrants call for different tools. When employees share little consensus on either dimension, for instance, the only methods that will elicit cooperation are “power tools” such as fiat, force, and threats. Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito wielded such devices effectively. So did Jamie Dimon, current CEO of JPMorgan Chase, during the bank’s integration with Bank One. For employees who agree on what they want but not on how to get it—think of Microsoft in 1995—leadership tools, such as vision statements, are more appropriate. Some leaders are blessed with an instinct for choosing the right tools—Continental Airlines’ Gordon Bethune, General Electric’s Jack Welch, and IBM’s Lou Gerstner are all examples. Others can use this framework to help select the most appropriate tools for their circumstances.
What happens after companies jettison traditional year-end evaluations?
The inaugural Maine Startup and Create Week was a success and exceeded organizers’ expectations, chief organizer Jess Knox told Mainebiz on Tuesday.Next year’s conference is already being planned, he said, adding that he hopes to have the 2015 conference dates set by August.
The year featured major investments in exciting new technology companies, from business software makers, biofuel farmers--and one troubled electric carmaker.
Far from being an established, sleepy market, the website builder market is going through significant growth and change. This is being driven by the fact that customers’ expectations about a merchant’s online presence are also changing. Gone are the days when a merchant could take out a Yellow Pages listing, print up some business cards
Below you will find some standard forms of documents used for early stage financings. These documents were developed at Cooley and were originally based on the
Verizon and Yahoo will need to heed the lessons from failed tech mergers as they navigate the road ahead, writes David Cohen.
BANGOR, Maine — For the fourth year in a row, Forbes has ranked Maine the worst state in the nation for business. “Not much has changed,” Forbes said
First Round Captial's top ten investments of all time, based on value created for investors, had at least one female founder, far higher than the percentage of female tech founders in the data set.
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Over the last 18 months, those of us following the venture and startup space have gone on a rollercoaster ride of mega rounds, unicorns, sky-high valuations and bubble fears. Look beyond the hyperbolic headlines and you’ll see that there is more than meets the eye to that shiny new unicorn valuation. Square’s recent IPO registration statement provides an opportunity to peel the onion on unicorn valuations.
If flying down a zipline isn't thrilling enough, Skywalker Adventure Builders' crazy ride suspends a bendy track from an overhead structure, adding twists
As part of Colin Buttimer's detailed comment yesterday on an old post of mine on images of deserted cities, there's a link to an astonishing series of photographs of a deserted funfair and rollercoaster, slowly being engulfed by foliage and rust. It appears to be part of a wider series of equally beautiful photographs of…
