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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. April 2011.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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Hire a Great Chinese Engineer by Impressing His Girlfriend's Mom

Harvard Business Review

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. The big thing for me is I know when I add something to my life and work, there's a price to pay – time wise!

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Creating a Vision Statement

CO2

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What are you passionate about? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached).