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The Value of Professional Conferences. Also Why Has There Been So Little Innovation?

Curious Cat

Some of the talks on tactics on how to improve software development on focused on technical solutions that are not so much about management systems. Obviously those impacted by poor software development management systems want the bad impacts on them to go away.

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The Busyness Trap

Harvard Business Review

I frequently talk to MBA students about their careers and aspirations for life. While everyone has to find his or her best way of getting these behaviors under control, here are some tactics that you may find useful: Impose a one-hour per day electronic blackout period. DeLong is the Philip J.

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Setting the Record Straight on Managing Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

.” “Problems don’t make anyone happy and bringing unsolved problems to your manager makes it look like you’re not doing your job,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t.