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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies. The company also has its own decentralized wallet and even official Telegram channels that keep the entire community in touch.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

He is the former Chief of News and Public Affairs at Stanford University Medical Center and is the author of Real Leaders Don’t Boss (Career Press, 2012) and Leadership Requires Extra Innings (with Second City Publishing Services, 2013). * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. General Business'

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Today’s American corporate world is a tale of two cultures. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobson

Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. Weak leaders and unhealthy organizations fear decentralized power and intellectually empowered small-unit leaders because they''re difficult to "control." And, how to be prepared -- physically, mentally and emotionally.

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Why Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Begging for More Regulation

Harvard Business Review

In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Treasury tasked with combating money laundering issued guidance on Bitcoin, defining it as a “decentralized” class of “virtual currency” that, though not equivalent to legal tender, “acts as a substitute for real money”. Clarity is coming, and with it, likely, greater involvement from banks.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2013, PayPal had acquired the parent company of Venmo, the mobile app that enables people to transfer money even without bank accounts. Meanwhile the merchant group developed Working Capital, an in-house experiment in small-business lending that PayPal had also started in 2013.

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Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. This post is adapted from a talk by the author at the December 2013 Lean Startup Conference. . But in general, the majority of our employees work somewhere other than our home base. Outsiders were dubious. An HBR Insight Center.