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Run Away From Sales People With These Traits

Sales Wolf Blog

This train wreck is easy to avoid. The hiring manager should be selecting sales hires based on the merits of their background, education, experience, and sales personality match. If only the egos of those involved in the sales hiring process were hedged by a data-driven sales hiring strategy.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”? What kind of education do I have to go back and make sure that I have? Silver: I think the best training is almost always going to be hands on training.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business Review

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too.

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"Feminine" Values Can Give Tomorrow's Leaders an Edge

Harvard Business Review

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Anna trained her empathy not just on beneficiaries of charity but also on volunteers. households. The lesson? Vulnerability Is Strength. (A

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Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

.” The study found that the factor with the highest impact on the per capita cost of a breach is employee training. Is that IT people’s training or the standard security training that everybody gets? Next, having an incident response team that is trained and ready for the scenario of a breach.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

This is true whether the speaker is Albert Einstein imagining himself on a train nearing the speed of light to explain relativity or John F. Machines have made great contributions to the quality and accessibility of education, from massive open online courses (MOOCS) to teaching simulations to Khan Academy lessons.

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The First Robot Commencement Address

Harvard Business Review

The first-ever cyber-commencement address given by “ Rossum ” — a machine intelligence running a $22 billion hedge fund—to the graduating class of a top-tier technical university somewhere in America before the year 2030. . The education you’ve received is a good thing. We need to co-evolve together.