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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

It’s about becoming aware of how the diverse internal and external stimuli we face can provoke automatic, immediate, unthinking responses in our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

The industry is even becoming more collaborative, as teams become global and diverse and the workplace becomes more virtual. I have seen many examples of people being penalized for acting as a lone wolf instead of a good team player when covering clients or trying to provide client solutions. Networking is just one example.

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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? For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

Harvard Business Review

Simple examples include recommendation engines that create value for customers by reducing their search and evaluation costs, as Amazon and Netflix do; or augmenting commodity utilities with customized usage information, as Opower does. Big data can help design information to augment products and services, and create entirely new ones.

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Outwitting America's Broken Political System

Harvard Business Review

By looking at these controversies, we can see how to spur America's diverse voters to support the tax and spending policies that, in time, would benefit us all. Consider, for instance, how the diverse, antagonistic interest groups battling over environmental policy reached a "grand bargain" in 1996. How was this possible?