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Dialing in the VoIP Strategic Advantage : Technology : HBS Working Knowledge

Voice over Internet Protocol has the potential to be the next disruptive technology changing the way businesses communicate. Are you thinking of ways VoIP can bring you competitive advantage? An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations : Negotiation : HBS Working Knowledge

What role does “perceived power” play in negotiations? For one thing, it may help all the parties take away a win at the table. Professor Kathleen McGinn discusses new research done with Princeton’s Rebecca Wolf.

InnovationMarketers blog: Methods of generating new ideas for entrepreneurs

Summary: Even with a wide variety of sources available, coming up with an idea as the basis for new venture can still be a difficult problem. The entrepreneur can use several methods to help generate and test new ideas including focus groups, brainstorming and problem inventory analysis.

These are some of the key methods to help generate end test new ideas by Steven Pierce.

Leonardo da Vinci: Qualities of a Genius and How to Think Productively

According to Thomas Alva Edison “Genius is ninety nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration” this mean that you must be more on hard work than wishing to be someone. Even if you’re not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.

These eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. “These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history.”