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Quality and Quantity – The Conversation Continues

QAspire

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. Here is an excerpt of some key ideas presented in the post at HBR. Hat tip to my friend Tanveer Naseer for pointing me to the HBR post via Twitter. Tanveer Naseer´s last blog.

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Tough-Minded Ways to Innovate | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

But after Pearson’s corporate life atop PepsiCo, he became an insightful HBR contributor, particularly with regard to innovation. I really enjoy your Blog and notice I didn't say "Like" dk. Read my blog 'Does a mentor have to breathe?' HBR was great in so many ways. ” That may have be so.

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The Success Equation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing Michael Mauboussin Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to “untangle” skill and luck to improve at “the art of good guesswork” when making decisions I have read all of Michael Mauboussin’s HBR Blog posts and thus have eagerly anticipated the publication [.]. (..)

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Have LinkedIn and Medium Killed the Old-Fashioned Blog?

Harvard Business Review

I didn’t start my business: my blog did. When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. The still-newish phenomenon of blogging gave me a way of exploring what we then called “Web 2.0”, had prepared me for.

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What Could You Accomplish With 1,000 Computers?

Harvard Business Review

HBR: You recently launched Hack/Reduce — a sort of Big Data playground — in collaboration with MIT, Harvard, and other Boston-area universities. HBR: What types of experiments have people tried? HBR: Hack/Reduce started out as a side project for you, but it sounds like it has real legs?

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What Could You Accomplish With 1,000 Computers?

Harvard Business Review

HBR: You recently launched Hack/Reduce — a sort of Big Data playground — in collaboration with MIT, Harvard, and other Boston-area universities. HBR: What types of experiments have people tried? HBR: Hack/Reduce started out as a side project for you, but it sounds like it has real legs?

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Why Superstition Works in Business

Harvard Business Review

None of this should matter to a levelheaded HBR readership, except that stock market behavior is influenced by eclipses. Lawn bowler David Mathie plays with the price tag still attached to his right shoe, whereas his colleague Erin Marie Roth carries a poker chip with her when playing internationally.

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