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Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business

Women on Business

Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development , founder of the Stop The Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. However, decisions are not being made, communication is stifled, and every so often, a major blow-up finds team members screaming at each other in the middle of practice. Conflict has a bad reputation.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Hassan Mirza

Cloudera

In this #ClouderaLife Spotlight Hassan talks about three life themes that have kept him moving and motivated: learning from his father’s work ethic despite his family’s forcible displacement from their country of origin, his early experience with organized sports, and the value of mentorship. Sales is definitely a team sport,” he said. “We

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. “Help them feel empowered to decline a bad meeting.” And we’re really focused on building the team.”. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development. Have you ever been at a loss to identify the motivations of a team member or peer, or felt like they were from a different planet?

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Enter OpenCloud, Where Modern IT Embraces Open Source and the Cloud

Battery Ventures

This is technology that used to be considered nerdy, cult-ish and hard to sell because it’s developed by grassroots programmers and is, at its core, free. The fancy sports car—just like a server. Moreover, your team is well versed with these systems. You probably don’t need all that power. But the salesperson is pretty good.

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The NBA’s digital transformation is a game-changer

CIO

The NBA’s full-court press on digital technologies has revolutionized the fan, player, and team experience, thanks to accelerated deployment of cloud, analytics, AI, and computer vision technologies since the association launched its digital transformation in 2020. Craig Powers, an analyst at IDC, sees no end in sight to that trend.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? For instance, an airline can secure itself from bad sales during a low-demand season or before an upcoming departure day by putting tickets on sale.