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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

This job you are in isn’t about enhancing your standing relative to others, but is about enhancing your organizations’ performance in the market, which can only be achieved through the combined efforts of your entire team. If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To I drive a Fiat 500.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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