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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Make sure the executive understands that a developmental move does not lower the standards – while making sure all of the support systems are in place to ensure their success. There’s three things you need to have for a reasonable chance for success: the right person, the right environment/situation, and the right support system.”

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. Pre-event registration systems like Cvent or Eventbrite help organizers sell tickets, promote the event, and measure responses beyond the number of registrations. Data also helps to close the loop.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

But data and objectivity can only get you so far. It may be that we'll eventually be able to systemize those arguments in a useful way, as computer scientist Peter McBurney and colleagues have been trying to do for the past few years. How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating.

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Why the Best Salespeople Get So Lucky

Harvard Business Review

The students had territories and quotas and used a customer-relationship-management system. Gathering competitive intelligence. The more field intelligence a salesperson has, the smarter and luckier he or she becomes. The more field intelligence a salesperson has, the smarter and luckier he or she becomes.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

Note that we can trace the origins of the IoT to the early efforts by engineers in Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to find ways to monitor, objectively and in real time, how the machines they designed for customers actually performed in the real word. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management.