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Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You

Harvard Business Review

An especially instructive example involves Greg Meyer, who has helped run customer-service operations for nearly a dozen companies. Last year, Meyer became an enthusiastic participant on quora.com, a popular knowledge-sharing site. Meyer's customer-service posts didn't say "hire me" — but they had that effect anyway.

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Caption Contest 2010.4

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Posted by: Yitz Weiss | April 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM After many years of research and countless hours of investigation, traffic engineers proudly announced today their new, bold plan for dealing with large trees in the path of planned highways -- go around them!! Even da Brooklyn accountants know der's only TWO of 'em - not TREE.

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Stephen Wolfram and the Science of Business

Harvard Business Review

That's part of why I wanted to hear him in conversation with Chris Meyer last month at Future Forward , a retreat for New England executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. When Meyer asked Wolfram what he'd like his company to be able to do that it isn't, he said "I'd love to find more entrepreneurs. "I Everybody actually does stuff."

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Are You Sure You Want to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business Review

Renowned restaurateur Danny Meyer likes to tell newly promoted supervisors that they have just been given the “gift of fire.” ” As a boss they now have a new and potent power, but Meyer wants to ensure they understand the appropriate — and inappropriate — uses of this gift.

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What It’s Really Like to be a Female CEO

Harvard Business Review

The revulsion is there too, though: Author Philipp Meyer describes his first unpublished novel as “600 pages of incoherent nonsense.” BONUS BITS People and Data The Incorporated Woman (The Economist) Facebook and Engineering the Public (Medium) Astro-Matic Baseball (Sports Illustrated). They’re the scars we’re proud to have earned.

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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

Tech blogger John Gruber and The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer both expressed concern recently about Apple abandoning middle class roots. Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. Bendgate, anyone?)

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3 Ways to Identify Cultural Differences on a Global Team

Harvard Business Review

Your brain is a prediction engine, constantly trying to predict a variety of aspects about what is going to happen in the future — including the reactions you will get from others. Erin Meyer. When dealing with people from other cultures, pay careful attention to the failures of your predictions. You and Your Team Series.