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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development. Shift Your Understanding.

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Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations.

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What Companies Should Ask Before Embracing Wearables

Harvard Business Review

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S.