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6 Reasons That Managers Still Add Value In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s knowledge-based and highly competitive environment, strategic leadership and company direction can still most quickly be decided and executed in a hierarchical organization. Leadership and hierarchy perform strategic functions.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry.

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Can you profit by serving early adapters?

Berkonomics

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. Management added a few new rules to the rule base and watched over the system each evening, anxious that there be no contest between this number-crunching wonder and a single manager’s intuitive guesses.

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It is satisfying, but rarely profitable, serving early adopters.

Berkonomics

After all, what company can maintain such a small number of unique systems? I turned to Tom, our chief programmer, and directed him to use as many of the features of the knowledge based (artificial intelligence) system as possible, but reprogrammed into our standard reservations module using our BASIC programming language.