December, 2010

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Lead with a Coherent Strategy

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By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other.

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Business Intelligence: Barriers to Sharing Knowledge

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A great deal of valuable knowledge gained by experience is unconscious to the individual who has the knowledge. Experts do not know that they know. They make decisions and assumptions so quickly that they often do not realize the steps they perform automatically. When they share their thought process for the first time with others, they often skip many important steps.

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

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In 1904, A.P. Giannini, a son of Italian immigrants, founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco with the vision that banks should serve more than the fortunate few. . In 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake gave him the opportunity to make his vision a reality. Rushing into the shattered city, he managed to have $80,000 in gold loaded onto a horse cart covered with vegetables before fire consumed the bank building.

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CEOs work to keep key employees

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Chief executives should act now to prevent defections of key employees next year, says veteran management adviser Ram Charan. Ram Charan, an expert and author on developing corporate talent , shown earlier this month during an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Some companies already are bolstering their retention efforts despite the still-weak job market.

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Sticking Your Neck Out

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In today's fast-paced world everyone feels the pressure to achieve positive results by accomplishing more with less. Yet, the only way to make that happen is to own it , respond with flexibility, and control what whatever you have the power to handle. Today, we are in the worst economy of our lifetimes and things are breaking down all over the place.

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The Path to Transparency

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Transparency is secretive business. WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Contrarian Analysis Can Keep You Ahead of the Herd in 2011

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Have you ever noticed that much of the time, the forecasts for what’s going to happen next are quite often just more of what happened last ? There’s no real insight, just “ expect more of the same.”. That’s not how we view the world here at Elliott Wave International, where instead we study patterns of positive and negative mood to predict changes in the stock market, current events and other trends.