Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I particularly was struck by the description of how Jeff manages the meetings of Amazon’s senior executive team: “…the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives one of his primary, and peculiar, tools for managing his company: Meetings of his "S-team" of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word.

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MAY 10, 2021

That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  4)      Boston.

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. We did get a few of the more adventurous catalog companies. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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