by Barry O’Reilly Businesses have always come and gone, but these days it seems that companies can fall from market dominance to bankruptcy in the blink of an eye. Kodak, Blockbuster and HMV are just a few recent victims of the rapid market disruption that...
by Barry O’Reilly Again and again, we hear company founders complain in utter frustration that the larger they grow, the less they accomplish. “We built our first product in three weeks; now we can’t ship a new feature in three months,” they might say....
by Chuck Swoboda When you work at a startup that’s developing fundamentally new technology, you’re fueled by a passion for innovation and a belief that anything is possible. In the early days at Cree, we had very big goals but with very limited resources, so the...
by Chuck Swoboda Are you a leader or a manager? Despite what some people think, they are not the same thing. Management is getting someone to do what you want to deliver a predictable outcome. Leadership is getting people to work together to do something that might...
In the second episode of the IDG Talent podcast, Sinead D’Arcy of IDG outlines the history and future of the Pernod Ricard/Irish Distillers Group (IDG) Graduate Programme. Back to People and...
