"We're all used to jumping into projects and doing, doing, doing, but we can't fix everything in a month -- so we have to be teachers and introduce clients to new ways of thinking about business that they can use on their own, " says Jennifer Vickery, who lives in New York and edits IBM's employee intranet.
To Becher, baseball and Olympic sailing are good analogies for thinking differently about business.
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Most of all, get in the habit of stimulating your mind by not thinking about your business.
Taking some time thinking about your business, and working with your advisors to convert thoughts in to actions can yield big results.
The tech people who do know what the data can reveal and who know how to use Splunk to get answers are not usually thinking about the business.
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If you have industry background in patents and see, for example, that patents.com is not monetized as much as you think it should be, then you should start thinking about a business you can build on that real estate.
This got me thinking about whether a business case is all about the financials.
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Kardashian tells Forbes she has always been a workaholic and loves thinking creatively about new business deals.
This new ecosystem shakes us out of outdated roles and thinking about how our business should collaborate with others.
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Technology in general provides increasingly expressive strategy canvases over time, which means thinking about a new business space in terms of an old one is likely to limit what you see.
This diagram provides a spectrum for thinking about how human nature and business intersect.
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Get everyone involved in thinking about how to improve the business, and make it safe for people to push the envelope.
Cluetrain started business people thinking about the internet as a marketplace and rethinking the way they marketed goods through traditional marketing and advertising.
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At 42, Nicholas Gerber is a little too young to retire, but he is already thinking about how to sell the business he started nine years ago.
Celebrity economist Jeffrey Sachs, then at Harvard and now director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, started thinking about health care after a business trip to Zambia in 1995.
But once Facebook went public, "they had to start thinking much more about becoming a business, and as a business, a higher percentage of the feed had to be about ads, " Mr. O'Malley said.
Come January, as soon as the Christmas trees are taken down and the winter sales flood the shops, the world of business starts thinking about the World Economic Forum -- better known as Davos.
After years of being trained to focus on the supply chain, and that innovation is mostly about how to cut costs in the existing business, very few are thinking about market needs.
It is good that business schools are thinking about EQ measures, says Daniel Goleman, a leading psychologist in the field of emotional-intelligence.
Here are four valuable lessons I learned from my experience that can get you thinking about whether you, and your business, are prepared for the unexpected.
Way back in August, we reported that Harry Winston (NYSE: HWD) was thinking about selling its namesake diamond retail business to focus solely on its mining operations.
For all the progress humankind has made in the last century, when it comes to assessing risk, we go about our business with thinking apparatus still largely custom-made for Stone Age life on the African savannah.
Can my business function without my thinking about it 100% of the time?
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So when people start thinking about brand encounters that were once considered business as usual as momentous occasions, you know marketers have passed the tipping point.
There are a slew of organizational and cultural changes that accompany the transition to a new technology, including modes of accounting, and thinking about how applications are organized to deliver business services.
This started me thinking about other use cases to show executives quantifiable business impact.
By then Schmidt had separated the enterprise search business from ads and was thinking about how Google's loosely organized but collaborative and dynamic structure could be useful to older corporations.
This owner is thinking about retiring in a few years, selling his business at that time.
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