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Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Work Culture Change

Mike Cardus

Encourage managers at all levels to facilitate change, not just dictate it. Visible changes in behavior that align with proposed cultural shifts. Misalignment between the perceptions of management and employees. Seamless integration of changes into daily operations. Provide platforms for sharing feedback and innovations.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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New Perspectives Required To Create AI Fit For Humanity

The Horizons Tracker

The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots. For instance, many companies are following the lead of the likes of Amazon and Uber in implementing artificial intelligence in their management of employees.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

It is reviewing or arguing this question in court for a slew of proposed mergers — AT&T-Time Warner, T-Mobile-Sprint, CVS-Aetna, and Express Scripts-Cigna, to name a few. For example, CFIUS blocked the proposed acquisition of MoneyGram by Jack Ma’s Ant Financial over data security concerns. But what about competition?

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Is Your Team Coordinating Too Much, or Not Enough?

Harvard Business Review

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. This is an effective design when the nature of the team’s work is inherently uncertain or when the team works in an environment where they need to adjust to changes from customers or managers midstream. This process continues until you have completed the proposal.

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