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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills. Competent managers are able to keep the metaphorical ship afloat, but if you aim to become a successful, well-liked, and impactful leader, there is more to be done.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

In addition to receiving traditional training, each participant designs and carries out a 100-day project that targets an important business challenge, such as increasing the firm’s footprint in the health care segment or developing new software to enhance mobile phones (these are real examples). Both teams exceeded their targets.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. In the core business, MedStar developed a series of new devices, software, diagnostics, and therapeutics to improve specialized care at its hospitals.