Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

And on the same scale, where should the decision-making process be in the new company? When looking at the answers, the team quickly realized that the previous companies had very different decision-making cultures (one was a slow process of building consensus, and the other used open, time-bound debate with final decisions made by the CEO).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Two decades later, Amazon and eBay launched online marketplaces that allowed small businesses to sell their goods to global consumers, creating enormous marketing power even for the little guy. Payment processing was once a legal and financial nightmare, but today companies like Stripe and Square have made it simple for anyone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Designing projects as learning tools is a fairly straightforward process. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Over the course of a couple of decades, meditation has migrated from Himalayan hilltops and Japanese Zendos to corporate boardrooms and corridors of power, including Google , Apple , Aetna , the Pentagon , and the U.S. Practically speaking, can organizational leaders integrate mindfulness practices into strategic planning processes?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

We struggle to provide powerful business cases for improving data quality that command attention and focus the effort. Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. These costs are estimable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The challenge sponsors picked the best ones, and they are responsible for eventually rolling out the product, service, or process improvement. ” Once an idea is out there, customers can express their desire for it, one of the most powerful forces for overcoming organization inertia and resistance. Invest real money.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Go for the occasional mega-acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As these managers start to concern themselves with broad strategic issues and organizational change processes, lateral relationships with people outside their immediate area become even more critical to the manag­ers’ ability to get things done. People at a lower level] are saying something completely different.’

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Kevin Roose sets out to investigate why, and in the process highlights a shift toward increased anonymity among social media''s younger set as they balk at self-promotional, parent-rich networks like Facebook. That''s often the case: "The top dog wields his or her power to push greater responsibility and accountability down to lower levels."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

About a decade earlier Pete had also spearheaded a successful expansion into processing almonds, tomatoes, and frozen vegetables; Walker Farms had significant investments in three Central Valley plants. “Guaranteeing a solid return on this parcel will seem like a smart move. The question was what to do next.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

AWOT kicked-off as a personal project but grew into more as we saw the power of visualizing the real-time tweeting data. AWOT was also able to track tweets from Chinese users overcoming cyber-blocks, remote beacons in an otherwise notably blank parcel of Asia. There's plenty of fertile soil to farm here.

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