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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. Check out this post I wrote back in 2013. First, make the process more prospective and less retrospective.

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33 Best Pump Up Songs About Jobs

Miles Anthony Smith

Hard Hat and a Hammer by Alan Jackson (2010) While this song was originally performed by Harry Chapin, Ugly Kid Joe recorded it in the early 1990s. Hard Way to Make an Easy Living by Toby Keith (2013) While this song was originally performed by Harry Chapin, Ugly Kid Joe recorded it in the early 1990s. ​ 29. ​ 30.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. So we started digging.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8