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How Do You Know a Great Person When You See One?

Harvard Business Review

The front page of yesterday's New York Times offered an in-depth account of how innovators in one industry are wrestling with that very question. Before you object to comparing getting in to an elite medical school with getting a job at Southwest, you should appreciate just how hard it is to be hired by America's most successful airline.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. Ethical Quandaries. She offers examples of companies that have succeeded with humorous tweets. At least not all the time.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

With a $40 billion paper valuation , the simple app connecting drivers to passengers is now worth more than Halliburton Corporation, Aetna, General Mills, Delta Airlines, Kraft Foods, and Charles Schwab. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Innovation Internet'

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