Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Mine your backyard.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Jones January 31, 2011 at 2:26 am Gwyn, I couldn’t agree with you more. Thanks, Brandon Reply Gwyn Teatro January 31, 2011 at 10:21 pm Hi Brandon, Yes, I agree. Reply Lise Moen January 31, 2011 at 9:10 am Loved this! Lise Reply Gwyn Teatro January 31, 2011 at 10:21 pm Thanks Lise! Couldn’t agree more.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yes, a rifle or laser-sharp approach will take more planning and forethought, but in the end you’ll probably save time and resources. A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. In business, a shotgun approach gets the job done…but usually doesn’t yield outstanding results. All rights reserved.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 3, 2013

He’s sharp, connected, and passionate about what he feels called to do. This book is for anyone that leads, but the strike zone is a 35 yr old senior manager, church planter or senior pastor, innovator or entrepreneur. Catalyst 2011: David Kinnaman. Catalyst is lead by an impressive guy. Leadership Ministry'

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

On September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Declaring, “We are the 99%” and vilifying corporate leaders, they captured the attention of the nation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

There are several reasons why they may be not only useless but also potentially harmful to decision makers, managers, and entrepreneurs. Some lists do draw heavily from research, like this 2011 one , published by HBR. encourages readers to give up needing approval and fixating on their weaknesses. Evidence is anecdotal.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Consider two managers: one promises 30 percent growth but ends up delivering only 28 percent while the other manager promises 1 percent growth but beats the budget and delivers 2 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Because this elephant can take on so many faces, there is a good chance that all of those points of view exist within the management ranks of many companies – even the ones that already have some kind of SM presence. And be careful with the sharp end Maybe that falls under your second point. So what to do?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Then I heard that it grew 429% from September to December 2011. And of course, there's always the small fear that we are about to do something stupid, as in the early days of email, when your colleague actually managed to message "Philips is a complete tool" to everyone in the company. My first reaction was panic. You know how it goes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

By understanding and managing the perception of others my managing our own attitudes and acceptance of others even when they don’t agree with us is vital to our ability to expand our own knowledge and skills and to be perceived as a true leader. Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. I see good IT people promoted as IT managers because of their good results in IT, and then others wonder why they are bad managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Approximately 13% of subscription businesses tracked by the subscription-related website My Subscription Addiction have failed, and many more have seen sharp reversals of fortune.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. This is where numerous ventures fail. And, they are learning what is fundable and what isn’t, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

That’s even higher in America, where nearly two-thirds of adults own one – roughly double the 2011 number. These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. . And we use them constantly – the average American spends over two hours on his or her smartphone every day.

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