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How to Keep Remote Employees Enthused, Energized and Engaged

Michael Lee Stallard

As seen on SmartBlog on Leadership. . According to the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey, it is estimated that telecommuting rose 79% between 2005 and 2012, and with the constant evolution of communication technology, this trend shows no signs of stopping. By Michael Lee Stallard and Colton Perry.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business Review

. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? Or did they get it and just fail to execute? That makes sense.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Why the VA Couldn’t Keep Up with IT

Harvard Business Review

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

Philosopher John Gray actually complained about this mindset in a 2005 review of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat : In a curious twist, the utopian mind has migrated from left to right, and from the academy to the airport bookshop. Today some business gurus have a similar message.

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Gun Manufacturers Need to Lead Change, Not Just Follow the Law

Harvard Business Review

In the three years since December 2012 (the date of the Sandy Hook killings) the U.S.-based When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. For some, guns are a great business. I see at least three steps to take.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.