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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like?

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter).

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Pregnant Workers Have Rights, No Matter What the Supreme Court Says About UPS

Harvard Business Review

United Parcel Service will determine whether employers must accommodate pregnant women in the workplace. Another company faced a lawsuit from a pregnant employee whose manager allegedly prohibited her from making bathroom visits for morning sickness. In truth, no matter what the high Court decides, U.S.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

According to a 2013 study by American Express , EQ is one of the biggest predictors of performance in the workplace and a strong driver of leadership and personal excellence. How talent management is changing. ” Emotional intelligence matters even more today. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.