The Office Blend Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Perhaps we can face where we are now at work — in measured, precise fashion. Identify one career goal for 2022 — that holds true meaning. Lose one goal that no longer serves you. But with a wild overabundance of heart. Re-examine one obstacle or blocker to success.

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Wilde Fashion Mentor Goal 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

And when you fall short of your goals, you need to know why. By handing operations over to the nonconscious mind — including high-level, complex operations like pursuing goals — we make productivity possible. This should be no problem; after all, who knows you better than you do? Why would our brains work this way?

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Self-aware Wilde Open-book Comparison 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. We asked him about setting audacious goals. “The goals are only considered to be audacious by other people. Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. Here, a few highlights from 2014.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

” But the goal of a digital business strategy is connection. There, a fashion-challenged dork (a.k.a. yours truly) can ask experts for fashion advice, anytime, via internet chat. Give them telepathy: help them understand the world better than they did before. Infecting, not connecting. One is about volume.

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Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” With that goal in mind, the greeting card and media company equipped members of its long-established online consumer communities of women advisers with a simple ethnography app, which they used to conduct a variety of projects.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

If the project goal is reached, Kickstarter collects the pledges from backers, taking a 5% cut before turning over the proceeds to the organizers. Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. The new law’s goal was to restart the stalled U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Not even live video of the crowd as goals were scored and exclusive behind-the-scenes photos performed as well. So they participated in a record-breaking fashion. Shaq wanted to surprise and delight his fans, to connect with them and make smiles scalable. No doubt this was a brand play at the time, and one that worked.

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Technology Media Open-book Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But it seems especially ironic that this is happening in the San Francisco Bay area, that one-time headquarters of flower power where entrepreneurs have long fashioned themselves as rebels and iconoclasts battling robotic rivals (Microsoft, IBM) and liberating workers from the hierarchical ways of corporate life.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 12