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Domain Knowledge

Lead Change Blog

They know the ins and outs of the business, and can help your organization traverse the landscape and develop new products or services that can help you increase your market share. Like a typical lifecycle, when an SME leaves the firm, the organization suffers some form of loss of knowledge.

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Your New Idea Is Worthless Unless You Know How to Sell It

Harvard Business Review

When introducing a new idea to a potentially resistant audience, invest as much energy in what you say and how you say it as you did in coming up with the idea itself. Think about how the idea will reflect upon your audience more than you think about how it will reflect upon you. What successful model does your idea relate to?

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The amount of time it took to deliver the results to the global audience was, in fact, 30 times faster than the race itself—and at the same time, 15 other Olympic competitions were simultaneously having their results relayed. Together they develop a complete understanding of what the organizers, competitors, and audience expect.