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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Guest Post: Market Sensing is not Crop Dusting

Lead on Purpose

Recently while traveling to a new fishing spot , I had an experience that could only be replicated in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “ North by Northwest.” Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly. If you’ve ever seen an actual field being dusted, it’s an amazing feat. Finally, ground support (a.k.a.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Negotiate from the Inside Out

Harvard Business Review

This fuels your creativity and ability to find innovative solutions, because you’re no longer constrained by the experience of a single role. However, the decision and its outcomes might conflict with your ethics. You’ll demonstrate unique and powerful strengths. This kind of reflection can protect and empower you.

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What HoloLens Has That Google Glass Didn’t

Harvard Business Review

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass? This is precisely what made Glass vulnerable to the ethical and social issues that dogged it. Courtesy of Microsoft.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago.

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