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The “Grow or Die” Lie: Why Everything You Think You Know About Business Growth Is Wrong

YoungUpstarts

That is what I call the ‘gas pedal’ approach to managing growth. In addition, the right information needs to reach the manager regarding variances from processes and controls so mistakes can be fixed quickly and do not escalate into a larger problem. Instead of grow or die, be motivated by this motto: ‘Improve or die’.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.)

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

Steve Blank

is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.)

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

That book, the Practice of Management, had a lot to do with forming my thinking. The Practice of Management is probably one of the fundamental reasons that I’m in the career that I am in today. And so that would be where I would draw those differentiations. So how does that play out in Killing Marketing.

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Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan

Occam's Razor

With that context, this post is all about career management in the digital space. Your employer/manager would help you figure out the skills you can develop, this is for the most part no longer true. Virginia is close to my heart, it is the reason I can legally marry my wife. It is now all on you. Hence… Take control.

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