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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". Batteries still drag 'green vehicle' effort ". And on and on.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

GV portfolio company Savioke found itself in this same situation: the team had spent months developing a delivery robot for hotels, but felt paralyzed by big questions about the robot’s personality and behavior. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?”