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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

And if not, what are the ways and means of creating a culture where employees are united by curiosity, knowledge, innovation and a shared sense of purpose. The HR Digest: What is Bosch’s secret sauce to being recognized as one of the “Best Workplaces for Innovators?”. Bosch takes great pride in its Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation. People are not given adequate opportunity to provide input, nor educated on the new process and applications they are expected to use, and they blame IT for imposing something on them they do not like.

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Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

Tanveer Naseer

It needs to center on step by step improvement in how an individual is doing against goals, how a team is advancing by virtue of an individual’s progress, how innovation is being served by attitudes and decisions on a daily basis, and how an individual’s achievements are translated into outcomes valued by an employer.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

The implications for global education are huge, of course. Typically an in-house cost center, service is usually viewed as a necessary evil and constantly targeted for "efficiency." This is more than a story of online learning or mass dissemination. And that would be interesting enough. It can change how we to co-create value.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics to elevate the influence of their voices as educators, corporate leaders and policy makers — a critical need when you consider that Hispanics will represent 30% of America by 2050. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Think profit center, not cost center.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics to elevate the influence of their voices as educators, corporate leaders and policy makers — a critical need when you consider that Hispanics will represent 30% of America by 2050. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Think profit center, not cost center.