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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Instead, by applying the core tenets of mindfulness to everyday tasks, business professionals at all levels can more effectively focus on high-priority objectives – the type that lead to immediate results. About the Authors.

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Using Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge to Gain Insight into Data Collection

Deming Institute

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as (truly) objective data. The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. All data are subjective! Also, Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge can help us understand and improve the collection and analysis of data.

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. “Objective reporting is vital for advocacy, which leads to aid. Staying focused on her purpose keeps her strong. Resilience.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business Review

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Several different objectives are driving the current tech deal flurry. Insight Center.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Skoda ran a campaign in 2015 , placing an AR mirror in a Victoria railway station in London, so that people passing by could customize a car and then see themselves driving it on a large screen. In each of these examples, the AR technology was used to engage customers at events or in public spaces.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.