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Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. By brainstorming and executing new ways to effectively communicate your unique offering, you’ll be in a better position to grow your bottom line.

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The Four C’s to Helping Employees Embrace Change at Work during COVID

HR Digest

As you and your company move from phase to phase – or, embrace the new normal and work-from-home culture indefinitely – consider prioritizing the four C’s as part of your HR operations tactics. Each aspect can be applied in regards to where you are right now as a company and how you’re approaching the current state of the pandemic.

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The Case for Crowdsourcing Projects as a Business

Strategy Driven

Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole? In reality, the time it takes to sit colleagues down, brainstorm, validate ideas and put them into action is often hugely underestimated. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Get a fresh perspective.

Project 50
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Data Analysis Should Be a Social Event

Harvard Business Review

In our experience working with hundreds of companies, this is a very common approach but it is essentially a tactical one. In March this year, for example, it hosted a two-day session in co-operation with the World Bank, various UN agencies, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute to study data around poverty and corruption.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Nor was Uber alone in realizing that expensive taxi medallions were unnecessary for prebooked trips — a tactic already used by other entrepreneurs in many cities. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters. In those respects, Uber was much like what incumbents had and where they were headed. But that is not enough.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Because sales reps are more directly networked with their colleagues through technology, they more easily aggregate skills, knowledge, and experience to uncover new opportunities and to debate tactics for generating business. Its structure, skills, metrics, and rewards have mostly remained the same. Culture That Drives Performance.

Team 10
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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. Across the company, 10% of employees are Hispanic and 6% are black. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.