Friday Reads – 7/29/2011
A weekly post on some of our favorites from around the Web.
This week’s topic: Brand Driven Growth
- Do you have the right leaders for your growth strategies? from The McKinsey Quarterly
- Ready for Growth, But Not Prepared from Harvard Business Review
- Brand Building, Beyond Marketing from Strategy & Business
- Jeff Bezos On Innovation: Stubborn On Vision; Flexible On Details from Techdirt
- Reed Hastings on the Culture of Innovation – The Netflix CEO explains his company’s seven essential values. from Slate
- More Than Virtual: Marketing the Total Brand ‘Experience’ from Knowledge@Wharton
- As competition rises, Instapaper shuns outside dollars from GigaOm
- And one that is off topic, not new and not a read – but a must-do anyway: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
Plus, a few related #fridayfollows that we throw in for good measure:
@jhagel (John Hagel)
@rosabethkanter (Rosabeth Kantor)
@tedcoine (Ted Coine)
@johnbattelle (John Battelle)
and a couple of homesite favorites:
@markdimassimo
@Jpundyk
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