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

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. Encourage a skeptical culture.

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Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work

Harvard Business Review

If he had taken his research out of the office, Mark would have found that Jennifer felt very strongly about her local identity and bought her vegetables from a local organic cooperative; at the same time, she was concerned about global issues and invested her savings in Indiegogo , a global crowdfunding platform.

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To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers

Harvard Business Review

Instead of institution-based siloes and command-and-control, Ebola demands the collective problem-solving and action of a virtual community — and the mobilization of an entire ecosystem of diverse players. The struggle of the old management model is playing out before our very eyes. That’s important. For that, we need a community.

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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?