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Guest Post: Leadership Lessons from a Kindergarten Class

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, a 2012 Royal Society report emphasized that these “enhancements,” along with other technologies for self-enhancement, are likely to have far-reaching implications for the business world. In other words, smart drugs could be used to alleviate stress while also making us more productive. The Big Questions.

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

Women on Business

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Harvard Business Review

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. I knew we could help a lot of people if we focused on finding a sustainable — instead of a highly profitable — way to develop technology for the social good.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.”

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6 Key Areas Businesses Must Invest in and Strategize in 2023

Strategy Driven

The business world is about to witness a new era where transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G come together, opening up a world of possibilities. Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest.