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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

Under the pressure of competition, exchanges around the world are constantly developing, improving their platforms to be faster and more user-friendly. In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies. What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. Several years ago, I had the privilege of spending a summer at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago as a PhRMA Fellow.

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. I call it Alpha.

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

Harvard Business Review

Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets. Back in 2013, PayPal had acquired the parent company of Venmo, the mobile app that enables people to transfer money even without bank accounts. The company reorganized itself into two groups, one for consumers and one for merchants.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

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Making #GivingTuesday a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. There is not a development team or nonprofit board in the world that wouldn’t perk up at that number. GivingTuesday developed case studies and metrics to capture what happened in 2012.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.