business
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Six Strategies on How to Rise to the Top in Any Field
Advertising legend David Ogilvy on how to rise to the top in any field.
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Why Every Workplace Needs Introverts
Sometimes, it seems like workplaces are designed for extroverts. But introverts are important – even necessary – to every organization. We take a look at what makes introverts tick, and how they can make the most of their skills at work.
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Three Ways to Sneak Creativity… Where It’s Not Wanted
You've put together a high-energy creative team but company leadership is squashing their creative process altogether. What do you do? Can you do anything?
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Make Your Mark - Build a Business That Matters (99U Book Series)
Finally, a business book for makers, not managers.
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Don’t Embrace Failure, Transcend It
Failing fast and cheap is not a strategy, but a result of lazy thinking. There is nothing noble about failure and no reason we need to embrace it.
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Design Is Eating The World
Design is no longer something that we add to enhance a product, it is the product. The future, will not be made as much as it will be designed and anyone who wants to have a successful future, needs to learn design skills.
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Peter Thiel’s 4 Rules For Creating A Great Business
Peter Thiel recently published Zero to One, a book based on a startup course he teaches at Stanford, which summarizes his philosophy and gives four rules for creating a great business.
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Here’s How Corporate Helicopter Parents Zap Creativity
Do you know some corporate helicopter leaders and could their overbearing desire to make their employees thrive actually crush their creativity?
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Misfit Subculture: Learning from Hermits, Gangsters, and Occupiers (Video)
What can we learn about corporate governance from occupiers? What can entrepreneurs learn from hermits? What can the pharmaceutical industry learn from its patent robbers? In this talk, Alexa Clay explores the role of misfits in driving innovation and asks how can we foster greater collaboration and understanding between society and its misfit subcultures.
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How Your Mission Drives Your Strategy
Great businesses, in the final analysis, are built by passion. Strategies can come and go, but the mission of the enterprise is fundamental to directing action.
