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8 Meticulous Hiring Tactics to Land the Best People

Leading Blog

Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. Look for unanimous consensus from all the people who participated in the interviews. Visit robertkohlhepp.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Tim Cook and Apple's Tricky Next Steps

Harvard Business Review

Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. The problem is that, in order to make the bold moves that keep companies from succumbing to creative destruction, leaders need license to act. And founder entrepreneurs have incredible license.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, it will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.”

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. Management was open to perspectives that were different from the internal consensus. We received 236 responses from 21 industries in U.S. They had an average of 6.3

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business Review

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. Terminating products such as mobile devices is a complex process that involves an ecosystem of design companies, carriers, applications developers, software companies, content providers, and manufacturers.

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How To Choose The Next Head of the Fed

Harvard Business Review

At the moment, there seems to be little consensus on just how the two differ and which differences matter most. It should be drawn as a question of growth strategy and economic policy, ensuring that Western companies retain their license to operate in the future global economy.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

As we’re seeing rapid developments in both the open-source ecosystem of tools available to do data science and in the commercial, productized data-science tools, we’re also seeing increasing automation of a lot of data-science drudgery, such as data cleaning and data preparation.

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