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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Last week I had an old-fashioned, too-much-cholesterol breakfast at an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere diner. Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” The walls were adorned with ads from yesteryear. It entails choosing partnership over patriarchy.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” Similarly, Google just enlisted Diane von Furstenberg to design fashionable Glass frames, while the Cupertino-designed Apple Watch will eventually be angling to compete with stylish wrist-worn fashions from Geneva.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. That couldn’t be right, since Walmart.com was a multibillion-dollar operation that year. So we started digging.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully

Harvard Business Review

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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