Weekly Hotlist: Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

 

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October 14, 2013 Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying By Whitney Johnson Focus on marshaling data and demonstrating competence.

Innovation What Mobile App Developers Know About Designing Great Customer Experiences by Colin Raney Notes from the frontier of pricing strategy. Managing yourself Reinventing the To-Do List: A Multi-billion Dollar Opportunity by Michael Schrage Google already knows everything. Why can't it just tell us what to do? Managing yourself How to Listen When Your Communication Styles Don't Match by Mark Goulston What to do when someone is screaming, venting, explaining, or belaboring. Business education Let Them Eat MOOCs by Gianpiero Petriglieri Why the techno-utopianists are wrong about online education's revolutionary power. Managing people Is Losing Talent Always Bad? by Andrew Shipilov Employees moving on can strengthen a company. Managing yourself Consultants Should All Get Real Jobs by Scott Berkun How can you advise others on things you haven't done in years? Morale The Bonus Employees Really Want, Even If They Don't Know It Yet by Lalin Anik and Jordi Quoidbach Research shows that prosocial bonuses improve performance and make us happier. Customers Understanding Fairness is the Key to Keeping Customers by N. Taylor Thompson Effective pricing requires knowledge of psychology and sociology, not just economics.

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