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How to Lead On Purpose

Great Leadership By Dan

We found that to create a common goal, it’s vital to ramp up your purpose as an organization. Take Dell Technologies, as a great example of a company that hit pause and found its purpose. When he left the company in 2004, however, it fell on hard times. .: Why are some leaders effective at truly engaging with their teams?

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.

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How One Medical Group Is Decreasing Physician Burnout

Harvard Business Review

As part of our work researching high-performing primary care systems , we discovered a system-wide approach launched by Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in 2004 that unburdens primary care physicians. Leverage Technology. the percentage of eligible patients who received a mammogram). million members.

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A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide. Men on the job must feel besieged.

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Amazon has always described its goal as being the most customer-centric company in the world, but its approach is more high-tech than ours. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions.

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Electing a President in a Microtargeted World

Harvard Business Review

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. In your work, do you only focus on the metrics side, or do you decide what sort of messaging would go out in targeted ads?

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