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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Letitia, a senior leader at a global insurance company that I worked with, was adamant that her leadership team cultivate the trait of being open. I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. ill-fated attempts to impose global business models unsuited to the Chinese market. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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What Really Makes Customers Buy a Product

Harvard Business Review

Each person was asked to report their experiences during the week of a brand in one of four categories: mobile handsets, soft drinks, technology products, and electrical goods. One global drinks manufacturer we follow is now using group discounts as well as communicating that the product can be enjoyed in groups.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Consider the global controversies surrounding Facebook’s “social mood contagion” experiments. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are. Those who see the world probabilistically seem to better navigate volatile environments because they are wired to embrace uncertainty.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example.

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