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How Ritual Delivers Performance

Harvard Business Review

Successful sports coaches typically use rituals to build social bonds between team members. One pillar of Bosch Automotive Aftermarket's recent sales strategy change was to foster entrepreneurship and risk taking among Key Account Managers. It brings team members' external networks into the family. It reinforces desired behaviors.

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What You Won’t Hear About Trade and Manufacturing on the Campaign Trail

Harvard Business Review

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China.

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The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later

Harvard Business Review

One way to highlight the scale of this unfairness is to look at the contrast between how bailed-out banks and automotive companies were handled. Even worse, though, it corroded the bonds of trust required for the functioning of democracy. When the government rescued major American banks, it did not fire even one of their CEOs.

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