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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress. That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time. I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success. For good or ill.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. Same with Apple. No, INVEST RESOURCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA WITHOUT MEASURING.

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Six Marketing Mistakes at CES 2012

Harvard Business Review

Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Technology marketing needs to be shameless. Be bold, be shameless. You don't make speakers.

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Strategy Driven

Example: We will have sold 15K units of product and bring in $20K in revenue by April 2012, or we will go back to the drawing board. After 20 years in the technology industry, he discovered that his true passion and talent is in launching start-up companies. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product.

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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed. In the early 1970s it became clear that the most effective way to find a job through networking was to be in touch with as many weak ties as possible.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.