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Six Meaningful Lessons you can Learn from Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

Being a successful entrepreneur does not come easily because learning to operate a successful company takes long. Influential business people know how to capitalize on adversity and learn from their failures. It’s vital to plan time for reading and learning, whether in business strategies or just general information.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them

Harvard Business Review

If your primary skill is analytics (or data-mining or business intelligence), chances are that your self-confidence has taken a beating as machine learning and statistics have become prized within companies, the job market, and the media. Encourage them to grow to the heights of their chosen career (and not someone else’s).