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Profit Motive

Does Profit Motive Kill Companies?

Does Profit Motive Kill Companies?

By Bob Warfield on November 2, 2011

There’s an interesting article out in Forbes that contains a couple of fascinating ideas well worth digging into.   The first thing is their argument that Steve Jobs was able to eliminate Innovator’s Dilemma at Apple by getting rid of the profit motive.  The same article also mentions a fascinating study by Deloitte called “The Shift […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, Bing, Disruptive technology, google, Profit Motive, SaaS, Steve Jobs

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