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How to Prevent Redundant Performance Improvement Conversations

Great Leadership By Dan

About the Author Karin Hurt is a keynote speaker, top leadership consultant, and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in sales, customer service, and Human Resources. The author of Winning Well and Overcoming an Imperfect Boss , Hurt has been named to Inc.'s

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Not only could they digitally store manuals and logbooks, but wireless connectivity could also help with communications, flight planning, and keeping track of weather. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. While Congress is stuck in gridlock, leadership is active region by region, as I found in research for my book Move. infrastructure problems.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Years of economic mismanagement. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country.

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To Predict the Trajectory of the Internet of Things, Look to the Software Industry

Harvard Business Review

For example, SIGFOX, a French company founded in 2009, has established a niche for itself as a wireless network provider that connects low-energy IoT devices. They either help connect devices (i.e., connectivity) or with energy efficiency. Nodes depict the platform and components, while the relationship between them are shown as lines.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,