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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. How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Heifetz agrees: “The hiring manager is the buyer, you’re the product, and you need to give him a reason to buy.” The goal is to include enough white space so that a hiring manager wants to keep reading. Further Reading.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could try to take advantage of limitations in conventional financial metrics to get higher long-run returns by focusing on sustainability and social good. Or you could accept lower returns in exchange for accomplishing social goals. With Warby Parker or with Method, that becomes part of the value of the product for people.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.