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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. Innovation'

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . 1-858-759-0950.

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Intrapreneurship in "Social" Business

Mills Scofield

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. First is the bandwidth to test out new ideas and to maintain a constant stream of innovation.

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The Danger of Denial

Marshall Goldsmith

All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious. The United States has a history of continued innovation and flexibility that few countries can match. Anyone could have figured this out. 1-858-759-0950.

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Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality

Harvard Business Review

The problem, the court said, was that the FCC’s bans on blocking or discriminating against certain Internet traffic sounded like the kind of rules that would apply to a “telecommunications service,” yet the FCC has classified broadband internet as an “information service.” It’s been a great decade to be a telecommunications lawyer.

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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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It's Not Too Late to Stave Off Disruption

Harvard Business Review

At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. 2012 was a big year for payments leader Square, founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. When should incumbents be afraid — very afraid?