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Tablet Leadership Competition

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For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011. Kindle Edition (preview or buy): John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership: Book Notes & Coaching Tips for $9.99. .

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Concurrently, online advertising competition has increased with Microsoft/Yahoo and others digging into Google's search engine advertising market share through providing better value to online advertisers.

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A Drive for Excellence

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Engine Charlie's statement has never been more true as we witness the decline of the American automotive industry over the fifty years since his death. . Like Engine Charlie, most auto industry executives had summer homes in northern lower Michigan.

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Google's Project Oxygen

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Let the engineers do their stuff. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011. Later that year, the “people analytics” teams at the company produced what might be called the Eight Habits of Highly Effective Google Managers.

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Our Social Brain

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Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. An Integrated Leadership Team. Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks.

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Talent Shortages from a Changing Workforce

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That was a question I recently heard from an executive running a major engineering organization. . Executives running businesses in critical sectors like engineering, health care, government, manufacturing, research and development, aerospace and defense are all feeling the pressures of a changing workforce. Of course, he’s not alone.

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How many friends can you really have in your social network.

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The more people we need to understand, the bigger the mental engine we will need. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2011. That is to say, people with more friends are better able to understand the intentions and perspectives of other people from one's own.

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