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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. He set this as the measure of success for the company. In order to underscore this goal, Bethune decided to send every employee a check every time the company was first in on-time arrival.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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10 Technology Problems Modern Business Owners Have To Deal With

Strategy Driven

Cybercrime is like the mirror image of “white hat” technology use. Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. Monitoring, support, firewalls, antivirus solutions, and the latest technology patches are all key means of fighting cybercrime, as is internal education. I: Cybercrime. III: Corporate Espionage.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. In the late 19th and early 20th century, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business.

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Did Trade with China Make U.S. Manufacturing Less Innovative?

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. companies to become more innovative? The researchers looked at trade data from 1991 to 2007, during which time China became a global manufacturing powerhouse. innovation.

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Our Approach to Economic Growth Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

is going to flourish again, it must put technology-driven productivity first, which requires restoring robust public and private investment in the drivers of growth: research, infrastructure, and investment in new machines, software, and skills. The Global Digital Economy. It is past time for this obsession to change. If the U.S.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. At the same time, business education needs to return to its roots. They were intended to be institutions of practical education.