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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

All Ben Milne, co-founder and CEO of Dwolla had was a burning desire to solve an existing problem. He offered to update my uninspiring site at zero cost and designed a website that has consistently maintained a page one search engine ranking in many key phrases. You don’t need $50,000 in the bank. The student became the teacher.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Authentic and trusting relationships within an organization can lead to more support if additional funding is needed for a product or to sway an engineer to include a quick bug fix in the next sprint. Core Competencies.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. From the top down, CEOs should: Rebrand the company's future: The CEO should use his position as a classic bully pulpit. The only competitors worth our attention are other multinationals.

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

But for a generation of senior managers and functional heads raised on a steady diet of “visionary leadership,” this more adaptive approach does not always come naturally. Only after a lot of stakeholder management and leadership intervention did the pilot get back on track. Leaders must foster a culture of learning.