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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The only way to survive in this ever-changing, expanding, globalizing economy is to continually adapt. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. About the Authors.

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8 Ways to Have a Successful Partnership

Leading Blog

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. Don''t figure it out.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Platforms are all the rage these days.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. In this lengthy investigation of the company, writer Max Chafkin says founder Shai Agassi "made great Kool-Aid and then drank it all himself."

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So if you want innovation, individuals must to be taught to do four things: Challenge invisible orthodoxies.