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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Complimentary Resource – 2011 Trends Report: Customer Relationship Management

Strategy Driven

2011 Trends Report: Customer Relationship Management. Focus Experts share their 2011 predictions for CRM. In this report, Focus Experts share their 2011 predictions for CRM. Click here for more information on 2011 Trends Report: Customer Relationship Management. 1 in most businesses. Consider leaving a comment!

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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

Some examples: I never load software anymore – in fact I don’t even use my CD/DVD player. As moving parts disappear (CD’s, Software, Wires, Hard Drives) do the systems, personnel, costs, support and focus also decline? With the advent of the App Store this week, I see it going away. I carry my laptop less and less.

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Microsoft Office: A Competitive Advantage that Needs to be Mobile

Coaching Tip

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer plans to take Microsoft in a new direction by shifting the company from a focus purely on software, that is downloaded onto personal computers or on corporate computing networks, into something of a hybrid of rivals Apple Inc. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2011. and Google Inc.

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Automation and the future of work. Are enough citizens taking this topic seriously?

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5 Tips On How To Treat New Employees.

Rich Gee Group

What most managers don’t realize is that the new team member has been interviewing and they might still be on the market. Also, make sure that everything (and I mean everything) is in place — their desk, supplies, laptop, passwords, systems, software, phone, and paperwork. So it is in your best interest to keep them happy.

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Important Steps to Licensing Your Ideas from Licensing Expert Stephen Key

Women on Business

There are many software programs to help you, like PatentWizard. Target companies that aren’t the largest or smallest in their field; mid-sized companies who desire greater market share are often the most receptive to new outside ideas. It only costs $110 to do so and will protect your idea for up to a year.

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