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The Main Thing: How to Keep Organizations Centered on What Matters Most

Leading Blog

Every organization needs a Main Thing—a single, powerful expression of what it hopes to accomplish. We cannot achieve and maintain alignment without consensus and conviction about The Main Thing. An electrical utility executive explained his company's purpose crisply and clearly: "To be the power source of choice.".

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives. ” The Power of Additive Contribution. That’s the power of reexamining our assumptions and considering people’s additive contributions.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

And finally, the blockchain spreadsheet has a mechanism—referred to as a consensus algorithm—that determines what is placed in the spreadsheet by mutual agreement among its users. Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

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Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

loans from government banks at below market rates, preferential regulatory policies, low-priced commodities, or other inputs from other SOEs, and reduced rental rates for land). Existing WTO rules require all members to notify the WTO when they establish subsidies that favor domestic industries (e.g.,

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. A deep understanding of ABM in B2B is its super-power. What myths are there about content marketing that need to be dispelled?

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?