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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017. “This gives us an objective indicator of Twitter sentiment and how people are talking about a particular technology,” the researchers explain. Creating a buzz.

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The Leadership Walk

N2Growth Blog

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. The most effective leaders have the best “talk”; a great vision, values, wonderful approaches and plans, and people see talk as more than just words – they see the walk. The reality is, they watch and pay much more attention to your feet, than your lips.

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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

In a nifty study by Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues at UCLA, she was able to use the latest technology to peer into the inner workings of our brain called functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) while a team was involved in a social exercise designed to provoke feelings of social isolation and rejection. Williams, K., Fitness, J.

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Decentralization Helps Firms Weather Turbulent Times

The Horizons Tracker

The data covered the period on either side of the 2008 financial crisis, so allowed comparisons to be made before and after. The managers also revealed how autonomous their decision making was in terms of new products, sales and marketing decisions, and hiring permanent employees.

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. and ponder The Pride Paradox. Gayathri Moosad picks 20 Essential Leadership Skills for us to consider.

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October Leadership Development Carnival: Autumn Fun Edition

Persuasive Powerhouse

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. and ponder The Pride Paradox. That’s it for this month. All Rights Reserved.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.