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What if the bully is the Boss?

I read Seth Godin every chance I get — highly recommend reading just about everything he writes. There has been a lot written and discussed regarding bullies recently, and Seth had a great take on the subject, as usual. Read it here. As I read his post on bullying, something stuck in the back of […]

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Big data piles up so high it reaches the cloud

“Big data is any data that when you pile it up reaches into the Cloud.” This was the opening statement for Jack Norris, CMO of MapR at the Cloud Connect Conference in Santa Clara today. He was paraphrasing the analysts but it was the ideal frame up for the Big Data Track at a Cloud […]

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To succeed in business you need to think like a superhero

I’m a bit of a comic book geek; I read them, collect them and chase the writer and artists to sign them. Everyone has a vice, that’s one of mine. But it got me thinking about how many lessons from comics could be translated into business life. Technology can be your superpower Look at how […]

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Are you ready for the Quantified Enterprise ?

In September I wrote an article about The Social Business Equation. In it I explained how trust and transparency will likely be the new currency in this connected age as consumers and corporates engage with each other on deeper levels than before. Living in a cynical world you’ll begin to question just why businesses are being […]

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Why you don’t need silos to scale a startup

My esteemed colleague here at SuccessfulWorkplace wrote a piece about using frameworks to help build business processes for startups when they begin to scale up operations. In the post Tom states that; To make the successful transition to the next stage of growth, companies need to formalize management, communications and processes. To a certain extent […]

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Benchmarking type best determined by your need

I’ve really enjoyed the conversations around the series focused on benchmarking, and I look forward to more points of view. One thing that has become very apparent is that benchmarking is defined very differently among the general public. Benchmarking defined based on your experience Those that have been involved in benchmarking tend to define it […]

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