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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.

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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.”. It’s something different from just the aggregation of the knowledge in the patents.”.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

A company that can show it is different from other companies, in a way that is relevant to customers, gains a major competitive advantage. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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