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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another. There is an alternative to the fragmented work process, and it allows us to be faster, cheaper, and better.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. She told me repeatedly: you need to better articulate the business plan, especially the decision-making process.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Too often, we try and superimpose new technologies onto legacy processes, with this inevitably leading to underwhelming results. years as recently as 1998.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. All rights reserved.

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When (and Why) to Pay for Tweets

Harvard Business Review

But for businesses seeking to market through social media channels  in real-time and with detailed reporting  native social ads represent a uniquely promising new frontier. Now we spend a significant portion of our marketing budget on paid social ads, drafting and placing hundreds every month in multiple languages.