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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. This book is full with lessons for women, men, girls, boys, teachers, leaders, managers, even politicians on how to overcome stereotypes, stigmas, and artificial distinctions. Get Innovating Women.

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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

In my latest book, “ DO! 500 founders that were interviewed in Amar Bhide’s book had no past experience of working in the industry they went on to dominate. He offered to update my uninspiring site at zero cost and designed a website that has consistently maintained a page one search engine ranking in many key phrases.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

One of us is a consultant and educator whose new book, Agile Talent , describes how organizations can maximize the advantages and strategic return on their agile talent investment. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

As explained by Siddharta Mukerjee in his book The Gene , Sanger “turned his own strategy upside down and tried to build DNA, rather than break it down.” Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions.