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Guest Post from Howard Tiersky
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Early in my career, I had the chance to lead a product development team in creating a new kind of internal communication platform for large accounting firms. Our target users were auditors and tax consultants. We worked with those types of people often, so we felt we knew what they needed.
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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When your idea is novel, no one will steal it. No NDA required.
If your idea is truly novel, no one will value it. And that’s how you’ll know it’s novel.
When your idea is novel, no one will adopt it. This isn’t much of a stretch as, due to not-invented-here (NIH), no one will adopt anyone else’s idea – novel or not.
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Guest Post from Robyn Bolton
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“You sound stupid when you use the word ‘_____________’ because you’re trying to sound smart.” - Mark Cuban
What goes in the blank?
For Mark Cuban, it’s “cohort” because “there’s no reason to ever use the word ‘cohort’ when you could use the word ‘group.’ A cohort is a group of ...”
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
If I asked 10 people who they thought could be planet Earth’s most customer-centric company, I bet a majority would have the same answer. I’ll share that company’s name at the end of this article. For now, you can guess.
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Guest Post from David Burkus |
How do you build a high performing team?
If you think like most people, you will start with acquisition. You will start by thinking about how you can convince higher performing people to join the team. But the truth is that the so called “War For Talent” this acquisition mindset kicked off wasn’t worth the cost. It’s not that there’s no such thing as ...
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
It’s no secret that Google is one of the most innovative companies on the planet. Besides pioneering and then dominating the search industry, it has also become a leader in developing futuristic technologies such as artificial intelligence, driverless cars and quantum computing. It has even launched a life science company.
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