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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Stephen Curry has built his NBA career on taking shots that others don’t: three-pointers from a crazy distance. Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes.

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Venture Capitalists Are Looking for Failures

Women on Business

I recently heard someone quote a high-ranking executive and head of a US division of a multinational company saying that he was sure, nearly 20 times in his career, that he would be fired. Also, a strategy I have learned is to create a “disengagement process” for getting out of a project that is showing triggering signs of failure.

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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about Neustar’s strategies to raise the bar of leadership and diversity in the workplace? At Neustar, we are actively working to address barriers that keep women and underrepresented groups from pursuing technology careers. Change management for us really comes down to communication and people.