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Leading Virtual Teams: 12 Powerful Ways to Lead a Team You Can’t See

RapidStart Leadership

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. Maybe it’s a Monday morning phone huddle to set weekly goals, or a Friday video conference to share updates. Set a rhythm. Have a place to share.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business Review

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers

Harvard Business Review

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Turn a C-level Customer Into Your Most Valuable Reference

Harvard Business Review

A better, value-based approach is to initiate a quarterly review process that looks more like the following: First quarter: review all performance metrics with the customer and continue doing so every three months. Make sure they're being met. If any are not, correct the problems swiftly. It's great career development for them.".

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. What really resonated with me was that Jim seems to walk the talk.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.