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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Do It Yourself

Strategy Driven

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. It also highlights potential trends, letting you connect Analytics data with other tools. If you lack the skill set to tackle digital marketing and sales tasks, it’s important to remember that a tool that is easy to use doesn’t make you an expert.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. Attracting Team Members.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. Attracting Team Members.

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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

In recent times, it seems the trend is that entrepreneurs will email me their slides before the call. If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important.

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Cool and the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. But it needed to find a clue about the ideas, aesthetics, music, sensibilities, and trends that made up American culture. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. Precious few.

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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

Rushing towards an “AI strategy” and hiring someone with technical skills in AI to lead the charge might seem in tune with the current trends, but it ignores the reality that innovation initiatives only succeed when there is a solid understanding of actual business problems and goals.

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How Music Matters Now

Harvard Business Review

Economic, demographic, and cultural trends would make themselves felt among teenagers, the community most quick to respond and most open to change. Kids could see what was happening more clearly and they went to work on it hammer and tong. Here, roughly, is the way music used to work as a producing station in our culture.