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Power vs Influence - Choose one.

There are two forms or dimensions of leadership. One is power, the other, influence. Often we confuse the two. After all, those who have power often have influence, and those who have influence have a certain kind of power. In fact, however, the two are quite different, even opposites.We can see this by a simple thought-experiment.Imagine you have total power, and then you decide to share it...

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Leadership: Power vs Influence

There are two forms or dimensions of leadership. One is power, the other, influence. Often we confuse the two. After all, those who have power often have influence, and those who have influence have a certain kind of power. In fact, however, the two are quite different, even opposites. We can see this by a simple thought-experiment.Imagine you have total power, and then you decide to share it...

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Slowpal - 5 days in. 150 users. 1 million transactions indexed.

Slowpal is a simple web app which makes searching, browsing and filtering Paypal transactions quick and easy.Anyone who receives or sends payments using Paypal knows what a ball ache it is to run reports. They take an age to generate - that's if they don't crash first.We made Slowpal to scratch our own itch and help us manage the transactions on our shopping marketplace Shoply.comWe made...

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Re:How Twitter can kill the Twitter-killers on Saturday April 10, 2010 @07:18AM (#1254854)
great insight from dave winer on the coming twitter wars