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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. While historically easier said than done, the work this company did to increase certainty and decrease risk in new product development is increasingly feasible.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

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Freedom Only to the Degree of Self Mastery

Chris Brady

Author Steven Pressfield, the creative genius behind the book (and later movie) entitled, The Legend of Baggar Vance , as well as the beautifully written historical fiction book entitled The Gates of Fire (about the famed battle of Thermopylae), among others, offers one of the keenest insights into human nature I've ever encountered.