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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? Embrace new technology. Peer reviews shouldn’t feel like work.

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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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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

How much do CEOs actually matter? Although such sentiments may not apply to most CEOs, even the anonymous CEO still benefits from the impulse: Most CEOs worldwide earn between 50 and 100 times more than the average worker. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio in America is even bigger, at 350:1.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, Thierry Andretta, the CEO of French fashion company Lanvin, announced an initiative called "no email Wednesdays" because he thought people had stopped actually talking to each other. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. As Andy Singleton, CEO at Assembla , explained to me, continuous deployment can be both cheaper and lower risk. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes.