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The Future Of Work Post-Covid

The Horizons Tracker

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations. Redesigning the business.

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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 modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. The only way to survive in this ever-changing, expanding, globalizing economy is to continually adapt.

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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. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. To get a flavor of their operations, you can watch Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch in reruns of the television show Taxi.)

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. As an example, I recently coached a leader who’s responsible for a global organization’s operations in an Eastern European country.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

To help shape a shared understanding, Koh recruited an MIT team that had independently built an analytical and financial model of a seabed mining operation to give a series of influential seminars and analyze proposals for feasibility. Minimize, then expand your circle.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Negotiating the deal with the large global brand had been a challenge, but it increased business so much that Lance and his direct reports still felt as if they didn’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. ” “The holdup with Clarkson? Soon after, he’d landed the firm’s biggest partner, Howell.