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Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Work Culture Change

Mike Cardus

This principle involves effectively identifying and evaluating how work-culture operates across various levels—individual, group, organizational, and societal—to focus interventions effectively. Align incentives and rewards with desired work-cultural changes. Seamless integration of changes into daily operations.

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ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual

The Horizons Tracker

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. Spirit of cooperation. Focus on operational efficiencies. ” Values-based leadership. .

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. Incentives alone won’t do it. Each of these elements, when combined, will create enormous value?”

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world. It also requires setting up aligned incentives between city teams and business divisions.

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To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers

Harvard Business Review

Instead of institution-based siloes and command-and-control, Ebola demands the collective problem-solving and action of a virtual community — and the mobilization of an entire ecosystem of diverse players. Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. R&D Tax Incentives , with their data suggesting that reducing the cost of R&D by 10% results in an increase in innovation by 10%.

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Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). especially those with R&D operations. To shed more light on Arab contributions to the U.S. This data includes patents by people residing in the U.S. and around the world.