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Breaking the Rules

You're Not the Boss of Me

They are also imposed to provide structure in organizational settings that support the work and build a broad framework within which individuals are free to operate and contribute. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. An elaborate hoax. The scam works like this: 1.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

If your culture and your brand are driven by the same purpose and values and if you weave them together into a single guiding force for your company, you will win the competitive battle for customers and employees, future-proof your business from failures and downturns, and produce an organization that operates with integrity and authenticity.

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