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The Dilemma of Invention and Systems Framework
Originally posted on Innovations of the future: I want to start with stating a simple and profound poem by Shel Siverstein, I’ve done it, I’ve done it! Guess what I’ve done! Invented a light that...
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Creativity
Americans love to give lip service to creativity, celebrating imaginative artists and innovators and calling for “out of the box” ideas. Yet when we encounter creativity in real time — before we know...
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Four Ways to Market Like a Startup
The culture of “big” — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. But “big” is often cumbersome and slow. In an age when consumers decide within...
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Meet Grovo, the World’s Smartest Training Platform
I just joined a new SaaS startup called Grovo. It is pretty amazing. Basically they have taken huge ideas and broken them down into into easily understood and actionable skills. 4,000 video lessons...
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When Carl Icahn Ran a Company: The Story of TWA.
Originally posted on Marc Andreessen: From “TWA – Death Of A Legend” by Elaine X. Grant in St. Louis Magazine, October 2005. ––– Ask any ex-staffer what went wrong with the [bankrupt] airline, and...
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Beware the ‘Edifice Complex’ — and 9 Other Ways to Damage a High-Growth Startup
Originally posted on Marc Andreessen: Here are 10 ways to grievously damage your high-growth tech startup – and hurt the perception of Silicon Valley in the process. None of these are specific to any...
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A Process for Human-Algorithm Decision Making
Think for a moment about how an organization makes a decision. First come the facts, the data that will inform the decision. Using these facts, someone formulates alternative courses of action and...
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How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition
Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage,...
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Osterman Research shares why your ex-employees could be your next big...
Osterman Research shares why your ex-employees could be your next big security threat What happens when an employee leaves your company? If you’re like many small and medium-sized businesses, you’ll...
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What It Will Take to Create the Next Great Silicon Valleys (Plural)
Originally posted on Marc Andreessen: Photo: Patrick Nouhailler/ Flickr The popular recipe for creating the “next” Silicon Valley goes something like this: *Build a big, beautiful, fully equipped...
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Using Social Media Without Jeopardizing Your Career
Effective business communicators know that a brisk, bulleted memo is often more effective than a multi-page document, that an executive summary is at least as important as a full report, and that a...
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The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners
As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner —...
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Competing on Customer Journeys
The explosion of digital technologies over the past decade has created “empowered” consumers so expert in their use of tools and information that they can call the shots, hunting down what they want...
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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work
Most discussions about matrix organizations usually quickly devolve into a debate between two sides: those who love to hate the matrix, and those who hate to love the matrix. The former claim that a...
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Developing Competitive Advantage in the Cloud: Qualitative Findings
While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing are gaining traction in the enterprise market, many firms still struggle to understand their strategic implications. When should firms consider...
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