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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-25

Tanveer Naseer

Why I Won’t Read Your Cover Letter by @ greatonthejob (via @ CornOnTheJob ) [link] # career #jobsearch #. Roger Babson # smbiz #sales #. Innovation # ff @ LDguyMN @TanveerNaseer @ tnvora @workengagemen… (cont) [link] #. RT @ ronkarr : It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-25

Tanveer Naseer

Why I Won’t Read Your Cover Letter by @ greatonthejob (via @ CornOnTheJob ) [link] # career #jobsearch #. Roger Babson # smbiz #sales #. Innovation # ff @ LDguyMN @TanveerNaseer @ tnvora @workengagemen… (cont) [link] #. Hiding from a Challenge? I Can Tell by Your Clothes [link] # leadership #smallbiz #.

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Good Communication Requires Experimenting with Your Language

Harvard Business Review

Consider a delinquent taxpayer who receives one of the following two letters in the mail: Letter 1: We are writing to inform you that we have still not received your tax payment of $5,000. Letter 2: We are writing to inform you that we have still not received your tax payment of $5,000. We take two lessons from this tax letter.

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Jumping the S-Curve: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers to pattern of consistently elevating (“jumping”) a company to progressively high levels of achievement.

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How to Brand a Next-Generation Product - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative?