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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” ” Another study demonstrated that the noise resulting from open office designs is a huge drain on employee morale. .” So which is it?

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. This causes loss of employee morale and, as a result, company productivity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Doing Things as We Always Have. All rights reserved.

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