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7 Risks Of Not Leveraging Team Member Data Analytics

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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MIT Media Lab’s Leadership in Open Source Software

Feld Thoughts

Eric von Hippel , my PhD advisor at MIT (I didn’t finish) and one of my early mentors, co-wrote two of the seminal papers on how free and open source software ( FOSS – and now FLOSS ) impacts innovation. How Open Source software works: “Free” user-to-user assistance. Joi’s punch line says it all.

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Why You Need Tools And Analytics For Employee Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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9 Keys To Overcoming The Fear Of Change In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. That culture has to come from the top down, by your actions and messages. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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7 Risks To Avoid In Your Business People Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio. Based on many years of HR leadership at SAP and elsewhere, these authors start by highlighting the risks of not leveraging data analytics. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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7 Advantages That Local Small Business Owners Enjoy

Startup Professionals Musings

Take pride in your leadership role in the local environment. They enjoy not being on the road most of time, and able to balance their activities and leadership roles between work and family, sports, or recreation. As the total owner of your own small business, you have maximum control of where and how to spend your time and money.