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Three reasons pms need an iphone

Lead on Purpose

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

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To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority

Harvard Business Review

Senior executives, on the other hand, are often frustrated by how little power they actually have. That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. We tend to overestimate the power of influence.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. The Washington Post ran a special back in 2010 entitled " Top Secret America " that detailed the extent to which this was taking place.

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