On February 24, 2010
Send Automatic E-mail Follow-ups to Avoid Lost Work
Unless you're a superhuman project manager, e-mails fall between the cracks all the time. If only there were some way to automatically follow up without having to track everything yourself.
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On February 24, 2010
Introductions Are Much More than Icebreakers
In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande explains that complicated processes like surgery, where human error can lead to tragedy, require checklists (you can listen to HBR's Katherine Bell interviewing Gawande here). One of the most important,…
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On February 24, 2010
Dumb Company Names in an ADD World
Let's face it: we live in an attention deficit world. Folks can't seem to focus on much of anything but tweets and texts these days. If it's not a pithy sound bite, forget it. Company and product names need to
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On February 24, 2010
Why a Good Business Process (Yawn!) Outsmarts the Best Chess Supercomputer
For years even the greatest chess masters have been unable to beat the best chess-playing computers. But now the secret for human victory has been found -- and it might change how you think about a boring business process.
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On February 24, 2010
Where Do You Fit in This Marketing Fable?
Once upon a time, there was a (hypothetical) Mary who built a business around her love of gardening. She used to be a gardening columnist in newspapers and magazines. 
She’s written…
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On February 24, 2010
How to Sell Innovative Ideas: Anchor and Twist
Radically different ideas might be the ones that are most likely to be game changers, but their very newness also makes them among the trickiest to communicate. So how do you sell your innovation without baffling your audience or losing
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On February 24, 2010
Quiz: Are Sales Quotas Really Necessary?
Sales quotas are abused and seldom achieved. Do we really and truly need them?
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On February 24, 2010
Critical Outlook 2010 Update Fixes Message Size Bug
If you're one of the lucky folks evaluating a technical preview version of Microsoft Office 2010, you should be aware of a serious bug in Outlook.
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On February 24, 2010
HBS’ Hill Lays Out the Development Path for Leaders
Linda Hill is the co-chair of the Leadership Initiative at the Harvard Business School and a former chair of the Organizational Behavior Department. She's the author of many books, articles and e-learning programs on leadership and professional development. BNET: How
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On February 24, 2010
Making IT Security Less Artsy and More Scientific
Security may be the hottest topic in IT, but it's also one of the least understood. So BriefingDirect assembled a panel to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than…
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