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The Role Beauty Plays In Our Success At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The lack of equal representation across various industries has been well documented in recent years, and the evidence is clear that despite the evident appeal of a meritocratic world, we’re often a long way from it. Recent research from the CEPR explores how equality is, or more pertinently is not, operating in economics.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. link] Allan W.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). These are just a few examples.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. Fostered global teamwork.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Directness.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term. It contributed 1.4

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