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Stretching Your Global Mindset

Harvard Business Review

They have big real world consequences, particularly as is the case now with Europe's debt crises and bailouts, when collective prosperity depends on the extension — as opposed to contraction — of cooperation, trust, and sympathy across borders and distances.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Why haven''t we seen more and more companies earning excellent scores in Forrester''s Customer Experience Index ?

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.