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Use Scarcity to Spur Innovation

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Strategy Driven

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. “We It is also important in evaluating the effectiveness of diversity initiatives.

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Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

Strategy Driven

Sit down with the other managers in your organization and identify the problems that are faced by people in your workforce. Develop innovative ideas and deploy specific new plans to provide employees with more flexibility in their work, support for their common needs, and help for dealing with personal issues that impact their life.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S. Five Questions For 2013.