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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

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Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Attend professional conferences.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. We reported the results publicly on a project website.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements

Strategy Driven

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Republican Governor Christie is a union supporter, who is up for re-election in November, 2013.

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