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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. Sure, there will be a fallout.

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What Is Inbound Marketing, and Why Is Everyone Doing It?

Strategy Driven

While many businesses rely on traditional outbound marketing strategies to find new leads, this can be costly and even ineffective. What Is Inbound Marketing? Inbound marketing is a strategy in which a business creates high-quality content to attract potential customers and to build its brand. About the Author.

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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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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking

Harvard Business Review

They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline. In many cases they have deliberately chosen not to pursue a managerial career. These are the highly professional individual contributors.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Directors named industry knowledge, strategy, and financial-audit expertise as their strongest skill sets. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Category 6: Business performance reviews, research, quality management programs, government relations, public policy, community relations and re-engineering.

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