Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. Africa has a limited talent pool, particularly in technology fields. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. It may seem innocuous, but that inadvertent myopia can put you at serious professional risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I was confident that inviting female clients to see a movie about women juggling career and family life would be a relationship-building event, paying off over the long haul. So much so that when I graduated from college, I wanted my career to include Latin America. Importantly, none of our competitors were doing anything like this.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Are you skeptical about using digital and social media in business marketing? Increasingly, business customers create great content and experiences to market to their own customers, so they know what they want from suppliers when they themselves are the potential buyers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it. .” ” Or, “ I left that place.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.”

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