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Today's Workforce in the Global Marketplace

Coaching Tip

The network economy is going to be mainstream. As a leader, you must engage your Gen Y Digital Cowboys to expand your network of contacts to both retain and expand your company. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership: Book Notes & Coaching Tips John Agno: Decoding the Executive Woman's Dress Code.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Are there really global network economies? While network economies generally are regarded as critical to winning with platforms, they, like economies of scale, often seem to be overestimated by executives. Do switching costs help sustain network advantages?

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Revenue moats are usually linked to intangible assets (including brands and patents), high switching costs, and network economies. This finding is a ringing modern confirmation of what Peter Drucker was telling us in 1967 about what makes executives effective.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential. I often hear executives talk about being “more networked,” but what they really mean is collaborating across the silos. We automatically escalate decisions to the boss.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. Teaching, consulting, and working with executives across industries and geographies has provided me with lots of evidence of a simple truth: it’s not what technology you’ve got, but how you use it.

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

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The HR leaders at one of these organizations had a large cubicle for office space, not a segregated office hidden behind guards (also known as Executive Assistants). Social networking has evolved in various formats, using technological advances to allow people to communicate with their network in unique ways.