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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business

Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. Of course, success of individual Hidden Champions is based on their leadership and strategy. The most important difference is the continuity of the leadership.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

After an arduous development process, we finally launched with five titles (the best part were the cartoons from Bizarro ). I''m glad Mark filmed it. 2008—Launched Tribes , a significant shift in my writing focus. We did this at the same time we built The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook. We started Squidoo as a summer project.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Absurdities, Blatant Lies, Chutzpah, Political Expediency, Odd Couples

MishTalk

But the Syrian leadership is dominated by Alawites (an offshoot of Shia Islam). The Sunni-Shia divide is nearly 1,400 years old, dating back to a dispute over the succession of leadership in the Muslim community following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. Shiite power like Iran would be a natural ally.