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How Netflix Uses Data Science To Produce Amazing Shows

Key Takeaways: Netflix has released hundreds of Originals and plans to spend $8 billion over the next year on content. Each production is a mountain of operational and logistical challenges that consumes and produces tremendous amounts of data. At Netflix’s scale, this is further amplified to levels seldom encountered before in the history of entertainment. […]
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Leadership Lessons From Game Of Thrones & House Of The Dragon

As anybody who has been in a leadership position knows, no single style fits every situation. In my book, Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros, I examine how characters, organisations and situations in that fictional world have surprising parallels to the way business is done in the real world. I […]
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  3. STRATEGY

The Strategies Of Tech Giants For Economic Downturn

Key Takeaways: Rising inflation and looming recessions are squeezing household finances, but businesses also worry about an economic downturn. With the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock market index down 17% in the year to date, and the Nasdaq 100 tech sector index down 33%, market uncertainties can affect a company’s ability or willingness to spend […]
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From GameStop To Crypto: How To Protect Yourself From Hype

Key Takeaways: Recent rallies in stocks popularised on social media have attracted increasing numbers of investors looking to these so-called “meme stocks” for quick returns. And with recessions looming around the world, the danger is becoming even more acute. Investors should learn a lesson from the GameStop story. Consumers have learned to be more wary […]
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  3. SOCIOLOGY
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Prediction Markets: How To Predict The Future

Key Takeaways: Wikipedia posits a handful of contenders for Physiology or Medicine, about 20 different possible winners for the Peace Prize and several dozen potential winners of the Literature Prize. Each stock’s price is tied to a different event happening in the future. Despite using different devices to keep up engagement, such as leader boards […]
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  3. STRATEGY

Royal Entrepreneur: How Queen Elizabeth Made The British Monarchy Into A Global Brand

Key Takeaways: Queen Elizabeth II was not just a monarch, she represented a global brand. Other organisations are granted the use of the royal prefix such as the Royal Opera House in London. Such a promise needs to be authentic, consistent and valued by consumers and other stakeholders. All of this has enabled the British […]
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The Future of Business Models

Business models can take various forms, depending on a company’s strategy and the way their products and services are dispersed to the market. The taxonomy of business models defines two opposing camps: pipes (a.k.a “pipelines”) and platforms. “Pipes” refers to physical infrastructure and assets that help create products and services, metaphorically pushing out these goods […]
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The Unsplash Story: From almost Broke to 5 Million Visitors

How could you go from almost no traction and running out of money, to getting millions of visitors to your website? You could do like Crew accidentally did with Unsplash. Create an open source side project that directs millions of visitors to your paid product. At the beginning, when they were starting a marketplace for […]

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Does Being Religious Make You More Ethical?

Key Takeaways: Can religion and spirituality promote ethical behaviour in the workplace? We work out our differences of opinion and come to some acceptable middle ground at all times trying to value our core beliefs. Some have argued that religiosity and religious-based spirituality could promote unethical behaviour. These initiatives consequently promote ethical decision making in […]
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  3. PSYCHOLOGY
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What Makes People Willing To Risk Their Lives To Save Others?

After an 18-year-old shooter murdered 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, distraught parents directed their rage at the multiple police officers who failed to enter the classroom where children were being shot. A teacher who survived his wounds derided the officers as “cowards.”  It’s possible that a broken chain of command was more consequential than […]

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Are Lockdowns Worth It?

2020 has been the year that vague epidemiological theories that were mostly of interest to us nerds suddenly became mainstream. Herd immunity, which previously was mostly the purview of epidemiologists in mouldering public health departments, suddenly became worthy of mainstream discussion and endless debate. Infection fatality rates, which were previously restricted mostly to infectious diseases conferences, have suddenly […]
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Why 2020 Will Be The Biggest Year For Online Education

As the months go by, the changes to our lives wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are proving more far-reaching than we initially thought when our governments imposed emergency measures, and they look set to continue for a long time. In academia, where time is measured not in years or months, but by terms, semesters or […]

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Cathy Nesbitt – Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters

This article was originally published here: Cathy Nesbitt – Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters Cathy Nesbitt environmental beliefs led her to start a worm business but her major focus now is improving people’s lives through laughter. What’s your story? I am a Health and Wellness Advocate. Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters (est 2002), Cathy’s Sprouters […]
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Dylan Quarles – Founder & CEO Rainier Augusta Independent Publishing LLC.

This article was originally published here: Dylan Quarles – Founder & CEO Rainier Augusta Independent Publishing LLC. After becoming a successful author, Dylan Quarles has made the transition to publishing. What’s your story? I am an award winning, bestselling author with over 100,000 readers worldwide. My fans will tell you that I write fast-paced page-turners […]
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Zachary Hoffman – Founder of SWALeadership LLC.

This article was originally published here: Zachary Hoffman – Founder of SWALeadership LLC. Determined that the world would be a better place with better leadership, Zachary Hoffman has designed a programme to inspire the leaders of the future. What’s your story? I am an Italian/American bi-lingual dual-citizen, effective leadership developer, award-winning author, international relations enthusiast, […]

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The Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche & Software Development

Why is Nietzsche’s philosophy so cool? Well, first of all, it is quite controversial. Nietzsche applied himself to such topics as morality, ethics, religion, psychology, and social criticism. While covering all those topics he created some polemical ideas. His concept of Master-Slave Morality is one big criticism of society. In this concept, he argues that there […]
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Business Experts Weigh In On Coronavirus

Global concerns around COVID-19 (coronavirus) continue to mount, with consequences for health care, business, and society as a whole. The family of viruses can cause the common cold or more severe diseases including COVID-19, which first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. To identify the possible impacts of the virus, we recently spoke to […]
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