Tag: management

First Mover Disadvantage
Getting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as sm...

Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics
When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s workplace where we spend most of our day, the pu...

The founder of a beloved productivity app thinks Hollywood has a better blueprint for innovation than Silicon Valley —and he's taking his cues from Netflix to fix it (NFLX)
Phil Libin, the founder of Evernote, thinks Silicon Valley could learn a lot from Hollywood when it comes to fostering innovation. He thinks Netflix in particular offers an ideal model. His new comp...

Five At Five: Does Walmart Have A Secret Weapon?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at today’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes discussion of an edge that Walmart may have on Amazon, along with big funding news in the w...