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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

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. Tie goals to concrete results. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.”

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands.

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business Review

Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way. Paradoxically, I find that women who focus on their career as their main goal are less likely to be truly impactful as a leader.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network.

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