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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love. In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. Have a challenging mission.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

The other main contenders seemed to be Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, Stanford economics professor John Taylor, and of course Columbia Business School dean (and economics professor) Glenn Hubbard, whose students made an awesome viral video about his purported disappointment at being passed over.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

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. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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