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This is great, and confirms a lot of what i've seen. Some of the best content I've read has come from HBR. Articles on leadership, communication, resiliency...
by meesterdude 9y ago
This is great, and confirms a lot of what i've seen.
Some of the best content I've read has come from HBR. Articles on leadership, communication, resiliency... some really great stuff. I was getting close to a membership because of how frequent I visited.
But that was a bit ago. Now... it's definitely gone downhill. I made the mistake of following them on twitter, and WOW do they peddle some bullshit.
> its alumni responsible for pushing a rapacious form of capitalism that explains many of the ills of the world’s biggest economy
Yup. One I saw recently was on why companies should defer profits till next year and focus on growth instead. Straight out of SV playbook.
- pembrook 9y agoHBR is essentially a pop-business publication with little connection to the school. In 2009 they brought in the editor of Time to shift to a more mainstream publishing style and hence why the content is no different from the type you can read on any generic "business" publication. Also, deferring profits for growth has been a valid strategy since the beginning of commerce itself. SV didn't invent it, nor is it a "bad" thing. It's typically how all companies grow. Do you think Ford Motor Company was profitable from Day 1?
- dhimes 9y agoThis is poison: it gives companies a veto over case studies written about them
- mschuster91 9y ago> Yup. One I saw recently was on why companies should defer profits till next year and focus on growth instead. Straight out of SV playbook. Which is not a bad thing in itself - just look how absolutely magnificent Amazon has become in the last few years. AWS has revolutionized hosting and to be honest shopping on Amazon is way better than what was before it: shopping on ebay and getting scammed left and right.