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Build a Great Company Culture with Help from Technology

Harvard Business Review

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values.

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005–2009 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%.

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Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Apple's Innovation Premium

Harvard Business Review

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Jobs did this when he saw the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) at PARC.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. Before joining MassMutual in 2005, Mark served as general counsel and secretary to the following three public companies prior to their sale/mergers: Fisher Scientific International Inc.,

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions.