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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles.

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What a Week for Departures: HP's Hurd, Jet Blue's Slater and.

Next Level Blog

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? link] Posted by: Mike Myatt | August 11, 2010 at 12:50 PM Thanks for the thoughtful post and for giving some background on Mr. Slater's possible state of mind. It’s what I call, in The Next Level ,  taking a big footprint view of your role.

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From idea to strategy

Lead on Purpose

This is the primary responsibility of product managers. She’s accomplished this through, among other things, focusing on product management: Bartz transformed Autodesk through a series of smart acquisitions and by encouraging new product development. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough

Terry Starbucker

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

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How Can We Scale Educational Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. In the for-profit space, it is estimated that the market for K-12 enterprise software and services in the United States was approximately $3B in 2010, growing modest single digits annually. presidential administrations.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy.

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