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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques.

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Are You Paying Enough Attention to Your Sales Force?

Harvard Business Review

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. By our estimates, the amount invested in U.S. sales forces exceeds $800 billion a year.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). The stakes are very high. A needed a pproach.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term. For this reason, the debate over short-term consequences of disruption largely misses the point of this, or any, technology-led disruption. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

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