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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

My analyses show that “smart collaboration” — that is, collaboration targeted at the right opportunities — nearly always pays out, but only after people spend time developing the underlying relationships and processes. Many people and companies start the investment, but quit before seeing the returns.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. Making drip irrigation more affordable and appropriate for these farmers has been one of my main goals in founding Driptech.