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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project. Last month, Kona was in San Francisco meeting Arnold Ambiel , Director of Operations for One World Futbol. In the U.S., 2 Degrees of Separation?

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

.  In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. “Besides, lots of experts say that too many people view comp as a hammer and every problem as a nail.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. 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. Build a talented, happy, and cohesive team.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. ” The “What’s the Matter with Owen?”

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Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully

Harvard Business Review

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? You’re really just masquerading. .’

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