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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses. Consider the newspaper-publishing industry.

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What It Takes to Be a Great Employer

Harvard Business Review

In the corporate world, however, engagement has come to signify just the opposite: some blend of an employee's commitment, passion, focus, motivation, morale and job satisfaction. Forty percent are "enrolled," meaning capable but not fully committed, and 40 percent were disenchanted and disengaged.