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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. If you keep following the edges and watch what the youngsters are doing, it gives you a pretty good idea of what’s coming.”

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also widened job opportunities. What should companies do now? This begs a pressing question: What do we do next? We are at a major inflection point that will largely determine the future of work.

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How Work Placements Can Improve Diversity In Engineering

The Horizons Tracker

That’s the finding of new research from the University of Technology Sydney, with the authors urging universities and industry to do more to provide access to such opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. ” Compulsory practice. ” Compulsory practice. ” A better approach. .

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." An open office environment.

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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

Having spurned Eric Schmidt’s advice from SXSW that everyone should go to college, he has begun to stockpile the social capital that will power the post-industrial revolution. He has opted for the social network over the fraternity as the basis for future advancement, and I hardly think he will be the last to do so.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. This is an area of tremendous creativity.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies. Running design sprints. Emotional Intelligence (EQ).