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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

But today’s decentralized office environment makes it harder to socialize culture, foster a sense of unity, and reinforce shared values. Some all-remote companies regularly organize remote social events and meetups to strengthen bonds between associates and create a connected corporate culture.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But the decentralization debate was different. In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

The implications for global education are huge, of course. A construct of circles rather than hierarchies allows an organization to tap into the so-called " freelance nation ," the global talent pool of the creative class. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout.

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Megastores Want to Be Like Mom-and-Pop Shops… Sort Of

Harvard Business Review

But at a global multi-billion dollar chain, that takes more than just sending out an email asking staff to emphasize their local roots. But by embracing new ways to forge customer bonds while emphasizing consistency and reliability, perhaps national chains can have it both ways. Marketing Operations Retail'

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