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How Not to Screw Up When You’ve Been Screwed Over

Let's Grow Leaders

Your angry words will travel faster and farther than you ever thought possible. Accusations make terrible leadership apparel. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning how to be resilient overcoming setbacks resilience' Handling this disappointment elegantly will foster deep respect. Stop Talking.

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How to Know Which Digital Trends Are Worth Chasing

Harvard Business Review

Marriott, for example, uses digital technology to streamline the hotel experience for its consumers, particularly its high-value business travelers. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. Insight Center.

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

The company will measure carbon footprint in different operational buckets such as plug load (electricity used) and business travel, and then offset each category "like for like" (i.e., buying RECs for electricity and offsets for travel). But executives weren't charged real money.

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The Best Digital Strategists Don’t Think in Terms of Either/Or

Harvard Business Review

There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. The recent experience of Visa provides some lessons in how to transcend the tradeoff between size and speed.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

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How to Give Your Business Model a One-Two Punch

Harvard Business Review

Learning how to "fight" across multiple disciplines is also relevant in business. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. MMA, which has overtaken boxing as the most-watched combat sport, emphasizes multi-disciplinary fighting styles. MMA is the sport of fighting.".