Participative Leadership is the Roadmap for Podemos in Spain

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What does an effective participative leadership style have in common with integrative negotiations? In this article, the May 24 elections in Spain are examined from the perspective of negotiation research with regard to negotiation strategies and coalition building at the bargaining table.

Margaret Heffernan: Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work

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Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help — that leads over time to great results. It's a radical rethink of what drives us to do our best work, and what it means to be a leader. Because as Heffernan points out: “Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do.”

New Converged Data Protection Appliances for Managed Service Providers

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If you are looking to add cloud backup services to your portfolio or looking to optimize your infrastructure costs for your existing service, the new Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliances for Manager Service Providers are an economical engineered solution that will enable you to accelerate monthly recurring revenue.

Software applications have on average 24 vulnerabilities inherited from buggy components

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Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components.Even worse, these software makers wouldn’t be able to tell which of their applications are affected by a known component flaw even if they wanted to because of poor inventory practices.Last year, large software and financial services companies downloaded 240,757 components on average from one of the largest public repositories of open-source Java components.

Quanta to strengthen software R&D for enterprise server business

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Quanta Computer reportedly is planning to expand its server business software team and will double the existing personnel to 100 by the end of 2015 and double the number again to 200 in 2016 to prepare for entering the enterprise server industry, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Skype for Web beta gets global rollout

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Skype for Web beta is now available to users around the world. The free software is compatible with most mainstream browsers and should prove useful if you usually use Skype on your mobile but want to quickly access calls and messages on a bigger screen. The post Skype for Web beta gets global rollout appeared first on Digital Trends.

Internet of Things specialist Actility announces $25 million funding round

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Investment from leading telcos and Foxconn investment fund offers powerful endorsement of Actility’s unique approach to IoT enablement. Actility, a leading provider of network solutions and managed information systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) market, today announced it has secured a $25 million funding round led by Ginko Ventures. Ginko Ventures leads a prestigious ...
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Four Key Discoveries from The Economist’s Global Content Survey of Brand Marketers and their B2B Audiences

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Tweet The Economist, in association with New York-based marketing research firm Peppercomm, recently conducted a global survey of top business leaders and marketers on the topic of content marketing. 500 global business executives were surveyed to find out what they look for from content providers, and 500 global marketers were asked about how they build […]

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