Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The second is technology. Software-driven marketplaces such as HourlyNerd , UpCounsel , and Behance that are facilitating the fast and accurate match of the supply and demand for high-quality, experienced talent. Continued improvements to services like Skype and Google Hangouts.

Human Resources 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

The American Company was to be a transatlantic enterprise that would produce large amounts of high-quality iron and, eventually, steel. He, his partners, and the American Company’s investors would control every stage of the operation, from mining on remote New Jersey mountainsides to selling metal bars in London.

Industry 8

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? It makes it culturally cool.

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 10

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You don’t build – Jim Collins in his book Good to Great said the most important lead quality of leadership is humility… focused on other people. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You don’t build – Jim Collins in his book Good to Great said the most important lead quality of leadership is humility… focused on other people. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It was a daunting investment, but well worth the quality-of-life improvement. Launch day was a wild success. Where a solar light can simply be turned on to show its value, a stove demo requires 30 minutes of time and extensive training about the technology. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. But most companies have very few reliable review mechanisms to assure or improve quality.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Interestingly, adaptive software development encourages timeboxes as a way to ensure an experiment is given the investment that is justified and to signal the acceptable quality level of given feature. It is a constraint that should guide the level of depth and quality for an experiment before a real test.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8