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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. The only way to survive in this ever-changing, expanding, globalizing economy is to continually adapt. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. About the Authors.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. BONUS BITS Mixed Feelings Should Airlines Attach Advertising to Your Luggage?

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. Just like wars, if a government can get people freaked out enough (i.e.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Global supply chains have been optimized, business processes have been outsourced, and huge investments have been made in new IT tools. Comprehensive innovation metrics.

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The Behavioral Science Behind the Negative TV Ads of Trump and Clinton

Harvard Business Review

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” He likens the damage of negative advertising to mutually assured product destruction. In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.