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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. The company is licensed to operate throughout Europe, the United States and Japan.

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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. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. General Business'

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.

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

Harvard Business Review

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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

Harvard Business Review

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

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Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. 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. . Outsiders were dubious.