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Hiring the Right #2: Avoiding the Biggest Talent Mistake
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
“Jemma is a great barrier to protect the team from my overzealousness and enthusiasm,” notes Naomi Simson, founder and CEO of Sydney-based RedBalloon. “She balances all my ‘brilliant’ ideas with a focus on making them process driven.
The single most important decision most entrepreneurs and CEOs make is who is [...]
Competitive Advantage Is Fleeting (And It's Okay to Admit It)
Twitter It!Rita McGrath Dynamic Strategies
For as long as I’ve been working in the field of strategy, a taken-for granted assumption among executives, students and academics has been that the goal of a great strategy is achieving a “sustainable competitive advantage.”
As the field migrated from a subject called “Business Policy,” having to do mostly with the [...]
The undercover boss
Twitter It!By Stefan Stern
Published: June 8 2009 23:18 | Last updated: June 8 2009 23:18
Employee attitude surveys, brown bag lunches, focus groups, informal chats: managers try quite hard to find out what their staff are thinking. But the results are mixed at best. What are your staff thinking? Admit it – you don’t really know.
Is [...]
How Cloud Computing Will Change Business
Twitter It!BM, Qualcomm, Nokia, and other majors, along with startups, are preparing to cash in on new technology. Not that it will be easy
By Steve Hamm
In 1990, in a keynote speech at the Comdex computer conference, Microsoft’s (MSFT) then-chief executive, Bill Gates, bolstered his bona fides as a tech visionary when he declared the PC [...]
A clean sheet of paper
Twitter It!By Seth Godin
The range and availability of freelance talent is greater than it has ever been before. World class designers, artists, illustrators, photographers, strategists, potters, copywriters, programmers–they’re all one click away.
There are two ways to work with talent.
The first is to give someone as clean a sheet of paper as possible. “We have these [...]