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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. The Mafia, Hells Angels, and the Sinaloa Cartel had different missions and strategies, and so their leaders developed unique corporate governance schemes. Then these individuals’ performance must be measured and rewarded.

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Loyalty Beyond Reason Defined

Leading Blog

They don''t obsess over their purchases, they simply see them as an essential part of everyday life, because -- and this is crucial -- they have developed a relationship with a brand that is built on respect and love. Consumers who are loyal to a brand -- loyal beyond reason even – are not fanatics. Marketing'

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Creating an Effective Peer Review System

Harvard Business Review

Many people think real-time peer reviews will be a key piece of the puzzle. But how do you create, maintain and support a successful real-time peer review program to make sure it delivers on its potential? Peer reviews shouldn’t feel like work. What practices should be instituted instead?

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Unusual Hiring Practices

Strategy Driven

Gabriel Fairman , Founder and CEO of BureauWorks , has been working on transforming localization business processes into technology over the past 15 years. The challenge on building AI towards that end is that translations can be great and still be significantly changed by reviewers.

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How living at a Zen Buddhist monastery taught you how to be a better entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Gabriel Fairman , Founder and CEO of BureauWorks , has been working on transforming localization business processes into technology over the past 15 years. The challenge on building AI towards that end is that translations can be great and still be significantly changed by reviewers.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies.

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A Way to Gauge How Well Your Company Is Really Performing

Harvard Business Review

Just change the peer group, and a laggard becomes a leader, or vice versa. When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. What about the effect of macroeconomic ups and downs?