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Blurred Lines: Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work

Strategy Driven

Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace. Be warned, toxic people don’t like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. They want to operate where they are most comfortable.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. of revenues).

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. Capitalize on success.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

” If you feel your family member isn’t respecting these boundaries, “bring it up privately and immediately,” says Lachenauer. That might mean dedicating time to professional networking and enrichment groups so that you keep up with business contacts and develop new skills. And I had to start at the bottom.”

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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