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

Leading Blog

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors. But today’s decentralized office environment makes it harder to socialize culture, foster a sense of unity, and reinforce shared values.

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

Harvard Business Review

It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. Decentralizing the procurement model and process is another key step, from establishing and enforcing quality standards across a distributed workforce to adjusting accounting and logistics systems to work with smaller suppliers. There are other operational considerations.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But the decentralization debate was different. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. Now Vera was getting worked up. ” Henning Weighs In.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. McAfee formed a strong bond of commitment with the hundreds of unpaid technical experts in the larger marketplace who know (and like) McAfee's platform of solutions.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.