1: “Our bread wasn’t good enough,” Ron Shaich writes in Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations. This was a real issue for Ron…
1: There are two traps CEOs and leadership teams fall into regarding innovation. Trap #1: “The minute we think we truly understand the customer and…
1: “Top-down innovation gets a bad rap,” Panera founder Ron Shaich writes in his terrific book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.…
1: “So tell me this,” the young executive asked, “Is Panera almost as good as Donatos?” “Is he joking?” Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich thought…
1: “What are we not doing?” That was the question Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz added to the agenda of his weekly staff meeting. After several…
1: Yesterday, we looked at the wild story of Opsware’s acquisition of Tangram. Which saved Opsware. Because it allowed them to retain EDS as a…
1: The two Opsware leaders sat in a sterile conference room at the EDS headquarters in Plano, Texas. EDS was their largest customer. “Largest customer…
1: In the middle of the dot-com crash, against all odds, Ben Horowitz had succeeded in finding a buyer for Loudcloud, the cloud computing company…
1: Today we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps the most influential American of the 20th century. And yet, the greatest American…
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations.…