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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. While job changes can be a powerful catalyst for development, they can also lead to the derailment of a promising high potential leader. Lessons and Advice Development and results Development assignments are not a free ride.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Pre-event registration systems like Cvent or Eventbrite help organizers sell tickets, promote the event, and measure responses beyond the number of registrations. So this is often more sales-ready data about buyers and their key concerns than the broad demographic data currently resident in most CRM systems.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, he gathered four other Israelis living in San Francisco to be his cofounders and they hired a coder in Ukraine through Craigslist and paid him to develop an ordering app. This ensured two things: a) less competition from large firms and b) different activities required to serve customers.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence. Some of this work has been released to the public in a white paper [pdf] developed for The Department of Homeland Security. Who will benefit?

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American Competitiveness Demands Immigration Reform

Harvard Business Review

There is wide recognition that we must fix our immigration system, but the many ways in which more open immigration would help build the economy are still not fully appreciated. Having global, cultural, gender, and generational diversity is a serious business asset that confers significant competitive advantage in the global marketplace.