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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

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. 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. Encourage a skeptical culture.

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Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work

Harvard Business Review

Among the growing perplexed population is Mark Barnes (not his real name), vice president of a marketing company. In the work on diversity and innovation we have conducted over recent years, we came to understand some of the keys of tribal thinking, and how some companies are successfully leveraging it.

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One Out of Every Two Managers Is Terrible at Accountability

Harvard Business Review

In our database of more than 5,400 upper-level managers from the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific gathered since 2010, 46% are rated "too little" on the item, "Holds people accountable — firm when they don't deliver." However, groups of cooperative contributors outperform groups of cheating free-riders.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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