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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network?

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.

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Congressional Judgment: Built to Lapse?

Harvard Business Review

Consider the evidence: several weeks spent debating whether to pay our bills or not; "kicking the can down the road" for a couple of months on the payroll tax reduction issue; spending lots of energy on silly things (like HR 1022 —"The Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act"). What's wrong with its decision-making processes?