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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 modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. The only way to survive in this ever-changing, expanding, globalizing economy is to continually adapt.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

To help shape a shared understanding, Koh recruited an MIT team that had independently built an analytical and financial model of a seabed mining operation to give a series of influential seminars and analyze proposals for feasibility. Acted as Chief Negotiator for Singapore in talks leading to the U.S.-Singapore

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);