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  Image:Latisha C @okta sells to CIO/CTO. Many of our new customers are because a new CIO/CTO has used us in a previous company. Play the long game, make them successful, they'll move around and bring you along! I didn't foresee it being THIS powerful. — Todd McKinnon (@toddmckinnon) August 31, 2020

  Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation Have you heard of the Milkshake story? Specific to Marketing A collection of mental models, frameworks, and principles you can use for marketing. 🧵 — Corey Haines 💡 (@coreyhainesco) August 28, 2020

  Reframing history of bananas Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World  by  Dan Koeppel Bananas are  still the most consumed fruit in America Keith and Costa Rica: The Biography of Minor Cooper Keith, American Entrepreneur by Cooper Keith A friend told me about how government was proactive in adding roads. Similarly Keith added such transportation in Costa Rica. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by  Rich Cohen Five Lessons from the Banana Man Samuel Zemurray Imagine "  a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen.  "

  Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It Sample chapter Came across this in I'd like to see a Computer Science class called Should We Build This where students have to explicitly reckon with whether things should be built or not and why. — Sarita Schoenebeck (@syardi) August 26, 2020 When to fail a Technology? Should this Exist?

  Homologation  in automotive. It is an  approval needed to export automotive.

  Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future What is the secret?

Dont delegate talent management to the hr department   How GE trains more experienced employees

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  How many google searches are done in a second? 228 million searches/ hour Search based advertising is a good example of dependent variables. If ever you find that your advertising is not performint at par, you will have to remember this dependency that you are baking in and monitor the search trends too, to tweak your approach. 

 Have you ever used  Joint Development Manufacturing  model? Hiring interview questions you should always ask Fabrizio Guerrieri

  Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age In  The Ends game , there's reference to BCG article where winners are the one swho find sustainable competive advantage. 

  What the CEO Wants You To Know, Expanded and Updated: How Your Company Really Works  Having read Ramcharan's  Leadership Pipeline  and heard other courses of his on Linkedin, always interested to know what he has got to say. This book focuses on the business leaders, their attention to business basics. While thinking about the street vendors in New York, I was reminded of one who gave my kid a free donut. I am looking forward to his  Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age .

  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm How hard would it be to restart civilization from scratch? Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil-fuels The Knowledge

  Can we survive technology?

The Craft of Economics: Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework (Ohlin Lectures) Came across Leamer's essay  A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above  in  Virtualization forklifts microphones  by  Andrew Kortina  of Venmo. 3.1 Losch hexagons " And there are Hotelling competitors that cluster inefficiently together in the center of a straight-line segment along which customers are distributed uniformly (a flat distribution)." Reminded me of book rows. Transportation cost to travel  (A modern version of this idea is the microeconomic exam question: “Why does the State of Washington ship its best apples to other states, not its worst?”) Hunt vs Washington apple advertising commission Just like the milk scarcity in villages where it is produced than in towns where it is sold. "Should the processing be done where the materials can be found or where the product is sold? It depends on whether processing adds weigh...

  The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change  The Four components of Dragonfly effect

  Where to go public How strict ae the currency controls Is it easy to transfer raised funds to aother country where you want to expand. Its not the product, its capacity and distribution

Culture and the Evolutionary Process Dual Inheritance theory " A cultural change — the domestication of animals — thus influenced our genes. But this new ability to drink milk in turn affected our culture. Those of our ancestors that could digest milk were less likely to slaughter their cattle for food.  " Memetics and more

  The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society (The Da Capo series in science)  by the way of  Network Celebrity Theory of communication and control in the individual

  The Art of Controversy  through  portals and flags Do you know how  flushing toilet, a sewing machine, piano keys, a zipper, and a cylinder lock ?