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Listen for the Sound of Your Own Success

Great Leadership By Dan

With social media at its peak (including texting, instant messaging, posting on Facebook and emailing) conversations have turned into fragments, are no longer grammatically correct, and come with plenty of syntax errors. But when it comes to corporate America, people face time constraints, agendas and goals.

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Broadcast TV Needs a New Business Model

Harvard Business Review

The basic problem is that the constraints which broadcasters have historically used to protect their profits have now been relaxed — or have even disappeared. To understand just how disruptive this is, consider one of the more dramatic moments of the conference when News Corp.''s Innovation Media Strategy' My guess is not.

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How to Get Health Care Innovations to Take Off

Harvard Business Review

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? I also prepare our C-suite executives with stories and statistics so they can promote innovation through the ranks and out to the rest of the world through speeches, media exposure, and conferences.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

Harvard Business Review

This step goes hand in hand with the media attention these price changes drew. Half of those latter references, in fact, mentioned the risk as regulatory constraints which may affect Amazon’s ability to continue to offer low prices. Amazon must change that price perception in the stores, in the media, and internally.

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The New Rules of Presentations

Harvard Business Review

What a load of old twaddle … As modern-day presenters, we’re equipped with tools to help us deliver our message in a whole heap of ways, from a cozy chat over a coffee to orating to masses at a conference. It’s time for presenters (and authors!)

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.