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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

When boiled down to its essence, management is a system of managers, operating in concert, constantly adjusting resources based on new information coming in to keep the business on target. Ed Muzio is CEO of Group Harmonics and an award-winning three-time author. In other words, management is the feedback system of the organization.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.