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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Effective teams need responsible and accountable leaders?the Too often, we've stopped thinking for ourselves.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

To foster it, they often give sales its own learning and development team, recruiting specialists, compensation plan, and management and IT systems — but now they’re finding that those differences can hinder success as much as they support it. On the most effective sales teams, particularly B2B, the individual no longer reigns supreme.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Consider the story of Technicolor. Their answer? What happened?

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. with no increase in crime rates.”

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. Fostered global teamwork.