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How to be Successful at Networking

Cooperperson

People who are in professions like Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering tend to be analytic, cautious, conscientious and describe themselves as introverts. Networking, as you get better at it, will actually become less stressful and be fun. The more you practice, the less awkward you will feel.

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How to be Successful at Networking

Cooperperson

People who are in professions like Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering tend to be analytic, cautious, conscientious and describe themselves as introverts. Networking, as you get better at it, will actually become less stressful and be fun. The more you practice, the less awkward you will feel.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. The participants even noticed this effect themselves.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. “Cloud native” software approaches stresses ease of use and low-impact alteration of components of any given software application.