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Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams

Let's Grow Leaders

Next, get clear about the specific initiatives and projects that support the strategic priorities. We call this commitment to do what matters most “Mind the M.I.T.” – that is, Mind the Most Important Thing. There may be several of these initiatives and projects for every strategic objective. Infinite need, finite me.

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Organizational Alignment is the Key to Managing Change

Lead Change Blog

Organizational alignment enables significant change to occur due to a culture of personal accountability and the commitment everyone shares in achieving organizational goals and quality patient care. Sense of Urgency: There a sense of urgency around the need to complete projects and firm milestones are well communicated.

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Sidelining Those Who Don’t Play Nice With Change

Change Starts Here

Some are too busy to fully commit the personal energy required to participate. Getting people involved who are already excited and committed is easier. Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. But beware; it will work, until it doesn’t.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. When the IoT trend started surfacing, we, like many other copmanies, pored over the analysts’ projections. ” When in Doubt, Go Modular.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business Review

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. One example of this is Brave , a new web browser created by Brendan Eich, co-founder of the Mozilla project and creator of the JavaScript language.