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8 Management Mistakes Which Will Defeat Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. Cloud, big data, analytics… this was the future.”. But our managers didn’t get it. All the way from 1993 to 2000. So what went wrong? Enter India.

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Pivot to the right with a few years of management consulting and use Powerpoint on cross country flights to make stop motion animations. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale.

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8 Self-Check Questions That Keep Leaders Up At Night

Startup Professionals Musings

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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