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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

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Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations.

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Mistakes That Hinder Sales

Strategy Driven

This principle applies to sales representatives if they want to be successful in their career. Written to appeal to youthful professionals seeking to grow in their careers, the book provides applicable advice that can easily be remembered as a result of the book’s sports theme. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

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The Mongrel Discipline of Management

Harvard Business Review

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. Detached observation requires a certain maturity. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management".

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback? ” Onboard.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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Hiring Veterans Is Good Business. So Why Don't We Do It More Often?

Harvard Business Review

Ten years after the start of the Iraq War, we're all familiar with the case for hiring veterans: they're mature, responsible, have significant managerial experience, and are used to chaotic, ambiguous environments. Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013."

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