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Federal Contracts Depend on Your Report Card

Women on Business

Your company’s overall effort on the contract and whether your company met key milestones listed in the contract, as well as grades for specific tasks and functions within that contract. Was company management responsive to the agency? Were subcontractors well managed?

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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

Actually, even if this is your choice you still need to pick from #1 or #2 until the company is in good shape for sale or IPO. Otherwise you will sell at a far lower price than you deserve.) S tay in some sort of leadership role, but bring in an experienced CEO from outside. Look for a buyer. So what does it take to transition?

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

Also, strategies of successful companies are considered essential for one’s own company even though circumstances may differ substantially. Examples: A business owner sets the price of a new product based on the first estimate they hear, ignoring market research.

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How to Manage Biased People

Harvard Business Review

By now it’s generally accepted that if senior leaders suffer from cognitive biases their decisions can severely undermine company performance. Take the recent case of JC Penney, which hired and abruptly fired its CEO, Ron Johnson , after the major changes he instituted took the company from bad to worse.

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What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

If you were low on fuel and your car spoke to your maps app, you could not only find the nearest open gas stations within a 10-mile radius, but also receive the price per gallon. I'd personally pay a few dollars a month for a contextual service that delivers the peace of mind of never running out of fuel on the road.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Companies with broader risk management outlooks and practices outperform their peers, according to a survey from Ernst and Young. Enterprise IT is no different.