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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? Defining Agile.

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

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

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Build The Five Pillars Of “The Soft Edge” For A Powerful Competitive Advantage

YoungUpstarts

Or why, in an entirely different industry, did German software giant SAP blow up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replace it with small teams? For example, just consider that team-oriented selling and sales commissions outperform individually focused sales teams by 30 percent.

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Why Small Teams Win: Eight Reasons To Stick To The “Two-Pizza” Rule

YoungUpstarts

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

YoungUpstarts

by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. We also established a rule: there would be no cap on employee spending on furniture, software and hardware, nor would we have any process to go through to get those things. Those that end up in that successful 10% follow a less obvious, even counterintuitive trajectory.