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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Think like a marketer to drive learning and development – Osborne argues that a long period of poor training initiatives has tarnished the brand of learning and development within the workforce. It’s only in such cultures that the kind of candid feedback that is such a crucial part of learning can be achieved.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that only a small percentage of founder-CEOs have the skills and experience needed to ensure company growth and shareholder value beyond a startup’s early stage. A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. Break away from the past.

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Executive Education Is Ripe for Online Disruption

Harvard Business Review

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. Education is basically that — knowledge sharing. I beg to differ.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

In a post on the company’s blog , CEO Elon Musk declared that Tesla’s “true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.”. That gap is probably relevant in this market.”.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. The participants were American women whose racial and ethnic identity was African American/black, Asian American, Latin/Hispanic, or any combination of these races and ethnicities.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

The CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani, realized that doing business in multiple languages prevented the organization from sharing valuable knowledge across the organization’s existing global operations, as well as those that were being newly established. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. The tacit knowledge should be codified and shared through formal processes and protocols to avoid the risk that valuable information absorbed by the outpost doesn’t reach the mothership. Propagate intelligence and insights.