Fixing the game

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1. polskibusDec 2012
   There are piles and piles written on this subject. Harvard Business Review is just full of research and essays on it. Every now and then, an article like this surfaces, a "case study" that is the result of survivorship bias - a description of one or two people that succeeded, their "advice", and values. What I think the community of entrepreneurs needs, is a more methodical research and insights taken from much larger samples. See for example Roger Martin's "Fixing the Game".
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2. polskibusDec 2012
   Decency does lose against short-term profit, esp. when we're talking about public companies. However, there are companies that somehow strike a better deal with their shareholders and try not to screw their customers all the time.

   I found Roger Martin's book "Fixing the Game" to descibe interesting case studies and proposals on how to fix the short-term greed problem. Perhaps Instagram's board should read it?

   For such simple services, reputation is all there is. Building next photo sharing service is easy (perhaps already free on github?) and competitors are waiting for Instagram's slippage.

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3. monochromaticSep 2015
   > “Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his important new book, Fixing the Game, “holding a press conference on Wednesday to announce that he predicts a win by 9 points on Sunday, and that bettors should recognize that the current spread of 6 points is too low. Or picture the team’s quarterback standing up in the postgame press conference and apologizing for having only won by 3 points when the final betting spread was 9 points in his team’s favor. While it’s laughable to imagine coaches or quarterbacks doing so, CEOs are expected to do both of these things.”

   This is a poor analogy, because you don't become an owner of a team by betting on point spreads. And the coach wouldn't be maximizing value for the actual owners by worrying about such things.

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4. kjhughesJun 2012
   Do not miss the link to Denning's prior review of Roger Martin's "Fixing the Game",

   http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizi...

   where he explains why maximizing shareholder value is misguided.

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