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0807 | How Successful Organizations Respond to Customers with Josh Seidan

LDRLB

Josh Seiden is a designer who has spent most of his career working on the design of complex software applications and integrating design into the product development process. Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Reading the case study, I realized Ray's experience provides a perfect template for the elusive process — which any professional can learn from — of how to develop a world-class reputation and become dominant in your field.

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Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

Harvard Business Review

The distance, though, helped me hone in on what's actually important to my professional career — and which make-work activities merely provide the illusion of progress. Early in my career, I was thrilled to win a five-year, quarter-million dollar contract. The pretentious tech publication with crazy layouts and too-small print?

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