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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

So, creative destruction is an axiom of business: you are not going to grow much without exacting a proportional decrease in business somewhere else. You better know whose livelihood you're going to mess with.

Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

For many years, the conventional wisdom held that corporate executives should focus on maximizing shareholder value, and this goal was reinforced by compensating executives with stocks.4 However, these strategies have a number of flaws. They create a bias towards short-term results (such as quarterly earnings) at the expense of longer-term prioriti

Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

JEFF BEZOS Founder and CEO, Amazon; Owner, the Washington Post

David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more

Nabeel S. Qureshi • Reflections on Palantir

Larry opted to elevate the login objective to a Google company-wide OKR, but with a caveat: The deadline would be three months, not six.

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

The requirement to communicate strategy, change, and corporate goals clearly and inspiringly to the staffs as large as those at the Big Five companies is not a trivial challenge, particularly in a time when uncomfortable change is often required. Beyond communication, the publishing companies have not outlived the normal incumbent allergy to change

Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®

In 2020, Harvard Business Publishing brought in $262 million in revenue, flat from the year prior. Though disappointing in isolation, that unglamorous performance looks much better when compared to the beatings many other media outlets suffered during the coronavirus lockdown. Over a five year period, revenue grew at a 3.8% CAGR.

Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist

Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In