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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

The Navy has demos of alternatives, but there is no force structure built on a different set of principles that would complicate China’s plans and create doubt in our adversaries of whether they could prevail in a conflict. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. (Like the pre-WW2 aircraft carriers.)

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This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco…

Growthink Blog

To these concerns, let me offer a few suggestions as to how to best utilize business data to support, but not drive , leadership and managerial decision-making. P.S. Like to demo the Growthink Business Intelligence Dashboard ? A far bigger one is simply analyzing anything more than the barest minimum of balance sheet - "i.e.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. But this type of innovation requires leadership who understands that is their goal.

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Sales Training Options to Help Your Small Business Succeed

Duct Tape Marketing

Meanwhile, you have another team member who’s skilled at managing relationships with existing customers and making up-sells, but who struggles with her demo presentations to prospects. Agile Selling by Jill Konrath. A good jumping off point is finding a sales training program that can cater each team member’s individual needs.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Stage 2: the teams demo their solutions and other features they’ve added against a new data set live to an NGA panel of judges, in hackathon style competition. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Stage 2: the teams demo their solutions and other features they’ve added against a new data set live to an NGA panel of judges, in hackathon style competition. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

And inviting to the booth/dinner/private demo. General Comments for both Awareness and Lead Generation Demo’s I don’t care how small the booth or trade show is, do a canned demo every 20 to 30 minutes regardless of whether anyone is at your booth or not. Demo’s are the heart of the booth. One of them is a loser.