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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

To be fair, the ‘act early’ ethic prevails in corporate cultures that worship entrepreneurial thinking. None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. That meant making the call without all of the information, and not fretting about it, but being glad of it.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. But students are never asked to examine these tensions and merge them into a coherent leadership approach that is consistent with their ethics and values.

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How IBM Is Changing Its HR Game

Harvard Business Review

Hamilton makes about 15 business trips a year via commercial airlines but he also, on any given day, might be found zooming around the virtual world Second Life with spiky hair and a kilt, holding training sessions with colleagues from a dozen different countries whose avatars might be international superheroes like Monkey King or Captain Vyom.