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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. At its Center of Competence for Cities, in London, Siemens employs a diverse set of experts, from architects and urban planners to public finance specialists. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide. But that’s only one side of the story.

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. Let us be clear: No human group can survive, let alone effectively cooperate, without being able to develop a shared outlook on the world which is the precondition for acting together.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts.

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