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How the Geeks Rewrote the Rules of Management

Harvard Business Review

Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His big idea is that “geeks” have created not only the technology that’s driving our future but also a management approach that defines contemporary corporate excellence. What does McAfee mean by geek?

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How to Manage an Employee Who Always Makes Excuses

Harvard Business Review

It’s common for managers to shortchange upfront alignment conversations in the name of speed. Your job as a manager is to create a process that acts as a performance scaffold to strengthen an employee’s alignment, capability, and motivation. But that haste can cost you, especially with an unreliable employee.

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Ideas to Impact: New Online Innovation Short Course

Tim Kastelle

We just released a short course that I made for students at The University of Queensland. As part of it, I got to interview a lot of my favourite people at UQ, and for me, their stories are the highlights of the course. It’s called Ideas to Impact – and you can check it out here.

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The Value of E-Learning and CMOE’s Top 5 Trending Courses

CMOE

Completing courses virtually reduces the time learners spend on training. Here is a list of our five most popular digital courses for your consideration. This course is designed to help individuals perceive and navigate the big things and the little things that occur every day in every part of our lives. Managing Differences.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

As a Product Manager, you probably have to deal with technical debt. And of course, the longer you take to deal with your technical debt, the more difficult it becomes to address fully. And of course, the longer you take to deal with your technical debt, the more difficult it becomes to address fully. Feeling frustrated?

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Top 10 short-term online innovation management courses

hackerearth

Why take a course on innovation? Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. List of courses. This is a round-up of short-term online courses for decision-makers who oversee driving innovation in their respective organizations. Course highlights.

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Top 10 short-term online innovation management courses

hackerearth

Why take a course on innovation? Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. List of courses. This is a round-up of short-term online courses for decision-makers who oversee driving innovation in their respective organizations. Course highlights.

Course 40
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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.