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The productivity imperative

First Friday Book Synopsis

Patrick Viguerie for The McKinsey Quarterly. Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Peter Bisson, Elizabeth Stephenson, and S.

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Morning Advantage: Robots!

Harvard Business Review

Delivering Large-Scale IT Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Value (McKinsey Quarterly). GDP growth isn’t actually all that good a predictor of income growth for ordinary working households." So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off. ALSO: UNICORNS. Scary stuff.

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

I quit my comfortable job in NYC with McKinsey & Co. This set of blog posts — of which this is the first — describes the lessons I have learnt, which should prove useful for entrepreneurs, especially those in the tough business of selling to the Indian consumer. China's experience offers some hope for the future, though.