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In Presentations, Learn to Say Less

Harvard Business Review

With these doubts in mind, many of us hedge our bets, avoid uncomfortable discussions, and surround the message with so much fluff that the real conclusion is barely visible. Then imagine that you had to send that message via Twitter instead of using slides, charts, documents, and discussions. What if a senior person disagrees?

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The Man Who Is Changing The World.

Rich Gee Group

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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If You're Not Micromanaging, You're Not Leading

Harvard Business Review

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. He wasn't technically sophisticated enough to read the code or analyze the testing, but he asked several project managers to share how their code was being documented.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Create a one-page document that contains the company’s operating values, vision, and mission. Don’t just look at this document only when you receive reports from the assigned reporter.