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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

We must start to think differently about how business, management, and strategic intelligence works. In other words, the goal for strategic intelligence is not to collect market information to make plans , but to use that information to generate insights that in turn support ever-changing perspectives.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Advice: Work with the executive’s sponsor to ensure the new job has measurable goals and accountability. If a concern can not be addressed, you may just have to help the reluctant executive understand how the new assignment is critical to the organization’s long range success and will help them achieve their longer range career goals.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

team that masterminded the campaign comprised veteran media activists and fundraisers pursuing a common enough goal (a criminal's arrest), but using skills and means unique to the digital age: a viral message, built on a 30-minute video, self-replicating among millions of real-world and online partisans across networks.

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