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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. As the business grew, it was time for the Borders brothers to hire a professional CEO. Booksellers, like any other business, must have Strategic Leadership to Prosper. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 . Related articles.

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The world is going mobile. Are you moving or standing?

Strategy Driven

Here’s my present situation and what I’m going to be doing to ensure my leadership position for the next decade: I have an app. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! All rights reserved.

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How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data

Harvard Business Review

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Traditional tools (business-intelligence applications, relational databases) simply can’t handle petabytes of unstructured information. And what’s the ROI going to be, anyway?

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