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How to Spot a Bad Boss During an Interview

Harvard Business Review

. “Failing to realize someone is a terrific boss is a very costly mistake, perhaps even more costly than failing to realize someone is a bad boss,” he says. Read on for tips on how to discern between the good managers and the bad. In 2010, Joe Franzen was searching for a position as a software developer.

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

” The case of John Shuttleworth and his team at BT Financial Group (BTFG) illustrates how this can work. John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The team sketched out user stories to frame the work (see below for an example).

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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Robust security is hard to achieve, and mistakes in proprietary approaches often manifest themselves only when a third party has succeeded in uncovering a security weakness.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently.

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