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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

Nary a week passes where I don’t hear from a CEO who’s grappling with this social media conundrum: should I, or shouldn’t I? We have a social media practice at N2growth, I use social media, and all of the CEOs I coach are participating at some level in social media. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

When HP's ex-CEO Mark Hurd headed to Oracle this fall, his former employer sued him , claiming that by taking the job he put "HP's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril." His most recent book is The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence.

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. If you make competitive intelligence everyone’s responsibility, it will be forgotten.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely. There is widespread recognition of the shortage of analytical professionals. Big Data Demands Big Context.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

Paul Bulcke, Nestle’s CEO, was quoted by Fortune as saying , “This is a case where you can be so right and yet so wrong… We live in an ambiguous world. Use competitive intelligence differently. At the minimum, institutional intelligence’s crucial role should be supporting a change in perspective.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

Risk-management chiefs were clearly subordinate at most banks to those who brought in the big bucks, and thus incapable of winning arguments when it really mattered; it was only at places like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan where the CEO saw himself as risk-manager-in-chief that the process seemed to work at all. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Case Study: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

She understood that gathering competitive intelligence required “creativity”—after all, you were seeking information that your rivals wanted to keep private—but this seemed like it might be crossing the line. .” “I’ve even talked to the CEO.” ” “You talked to the CEO?