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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

You’ve got very lofty goals,” Dick said. When we started Sports Illustrated , we didn’t make a profit for six years. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. He listened carefully as I told him about my idea for my magazine. Are you prepared to wait that long? 500 company.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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Steve Jobs' Legacy: Design Your Own Life

Harvard Business Review

If we allow creativity at all, it is limited to arts and sports. People forget the years between 1996-2001 where much of the market called him more insane, than insanely great. It reinforces fitting in and suppresses much of the natural creativity we start with. Real work" has us looking like a Dilbert character.

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Six Principles for Developing Humility as a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Whether we''re looking at business or politics, sports or entertainment, it''s clear we live in an era of self-celebration. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Perhaps more surprising, it does not entail shunning publicity.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

We’d have to live without medicinal drugs, challenging sports, sugary foods, and useful tools. In 2001 the U.S. This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings.