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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Instill discipline.

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Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier

Harvard Business Review

banks can use in their business. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. According to a 1992 study by the Government Accountability Office, the average leverage ratio for the top 13 investment banks was 27-to-1 during 1991 (up from 18-to-1 in 1990).

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. This is also true of executives.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Now Ewing is deploying her creative talents to help engineers develop the personality of Sophie, an AI program in the health care field. And then there are ethical challenges.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Why Men Work So Many Hours

Harvard Business Review

In late 2012, Bank of America announced that it was preparing to add more restrictions to its work-from-home program, reportedly to increase efficiency. For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. It''s not innovation. Increasingly, many fathers do, too.

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