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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It all adds up to a gradual, or even rapid, erosion of trust and commitment, which in turn undermines productivity. Redundancies made in haste leave an indelible mark on the employees left behind, especially as their work is likely to intensify in the absence of former colleagues. Supporting the foundations.

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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise

Harvard Business Review

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

From that point on, they committed themselves to soft drinks. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Coca-Cola’s focus begins at 30,000 feet, where corporate strategy is crafted. Something had to be done.

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