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The Arrogance of Listening

Strategy Driven

How was it possible that they missed the fact that ALL brains operate this way, even their own? I also received calls from managers saying they wanted me to train their teams so they could better listen to each other, and to their clients. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Yet none of them hired me.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. I’ve also used it to determine that I was in way too many meetings. What is that!?”

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016. Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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When Unequal Pay Is Actually Fair

Harvard Business Review

It appears there is a growing trend toward using bonuses to pay for performance, as half of these top performing companies are increasing their budget for bonuses in 2016. If managers offer pay-for-performance bonuses without a plan, the approach can backfire and managers can be faced with disgruntled employees and a chaotic work environment.

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Why the Rest of the World Can’t Free Ride on Europe’s GDPR Rules

Harvard Business Review

Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In 2014, Facebook had 2 million users in Myanmar; after Free Basics arrived in 2016, that number climbed to 30 million. ” Kenya has identified 21 hate-mongering WhatsApp groups. privacy laws.

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Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

Harvard Business Review

In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. When people know they are part of a collusive environment where the truth is unwelcome, they hide parts of themselves.