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Why Sustainable Competitive Advantage is so 1990

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I had a chance to catch up with Columbia Business School professor and fellow author, Rita McGrath to discuss her latest book called – The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). What does “good” in this new age look like?

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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

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Ever bought something from the Apple store, like an iPhone? Take a hotel website: some are using social and loyalty data to enhance the customer experience from booking through checkout. For instance, if a customer buys a TV without a warranty, the purchase may trigger an email or site promotion that highlights coverage for the TV.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

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We read to make us feel good, about what we’ve done or what we could do or what others have done — even about what a smart person we look like reading such a smart book on the subway — and not as an exercise in personal growth. When you’re done, give the book away, so someone else can learn from it. Make a list.

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Information Work: Numbers and Solving Problems

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Many solutions are a click away in other files, such as posted images and book sources. [A Books list puzzles and explain the many different challenges people have overcome. Can one arrange nine apples in four baskets so there are. an odd number of apples in each basket? Distribute Apples. Box" Thinking.

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Grow Your Wiki

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Wikipatterns book. Buy the book | Learn More. Buy the book. 21 days of wiki adoption. advertising. Barack Obama. better meetings. BlackBerry. boris mann. change management. citizen journalism. Clay Shirky. collaboration. Collaborative Technology. collective action. Web-based spreadsheet. White House. wiki adoption strategies.

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Tools do not a master make [redux]

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Perhaps most famous of the PowerPoint bashers is Edward Tufte , writer of several books and essays on information design. (I For some great ideas check out the Beyond Bullets blog or Atkinson’s book Beyond Bullet Points. — Apple - iLife - Garageband. Of course, this problem is not limited to the world of business.

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StartupNation Blog " Blog Archive " Learn how to draw out your vision

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What brought drawing to my attention was a book by Dan Roam I just read called, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. The idea in the book is to utilize basic drawings to illustrate plans, concepts and complex things in really easy-to-follow ways. Wednesday July 9, noon EST. Hear StartupNationâ??s

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