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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals. Only 14% of the companies we studied were in the active management category. Hardly an encouraging finding. The bad news?

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. ’” Project confidence, but not too much. What the Experts Say.

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Team Building Agenda: Kick-off Program for IT Leadership Team

Mike Cardus

Measurement Each IT Director will have working knowledge of the ‘ 7 Steps to High Performance Teams ’ this will be illustrated through content discussions about the model and each director determining where an existing team in on a project and steps to move the team to the next step. How does this fit into the larger strategic goals?

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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It

Harvard Business Review

Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves.

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. From the bottom up, Local Growth Teams (LGTs) should: Establish radical goals: Harman built an LGT in India to design a new auto infotainment system to provide all the functionality at half the price and one-third the cost.