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Why Outsource To Grow Your Business

Strategy Driven

Outsourcing based on the areas that your company is developing in can help you be more successful, and save you money in the long-run. It also allows you to seek out the best people for the job without time constraints and geographical boundaries. Outsourcing can be a solution to operational issues too.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Startups with huge burn rates — building leases, staff, PR and advertising — ran out of money. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” IPOs dried up.

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How to Earn Your Manager’s Respect

Harvard Business Review

.” It progresses to being viewed as an employee deserving of “interesting and challenging assignments,” and finally as an employee that your manager, “wants to invest in and develop because he thinks you have a bright future.” ” Wanting respect is one thing; getting it is another. Here are some strategies.

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

A 2014 IMF study illustrates that extreme inequality is self-defeating as it slows down economic growth and insights from behavioral economics show that it damages employee morale and productivity, while large executive bonuses have presented PR nightmares for the companies that award them. For example, in the current U.S.

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What to Do If Your Team Is in a Rut

Harvard Business Review

Management literature tends to associate chaos with creativity but in fact “constraints are the greatest enablers of creativity,” he adds. Develop a plan for action by setting aside a modest budget for experimenting with new ideas. “Define the task so your team is very clear on what it is trying to accomplish,” says Anthony.

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People Think Companies Can’t Do Good and Make Money. Can Companies Prove Them Wrong?

Harvard Business Review

Smart businesspeople are well aware that a deceptive firm will quickly develop a bad reputation and lose repeat and future business. The market economy allows them to get their favorite products and services but take for granted the processes leading to their development and delivery. But anti-profit beliefs are short-sighted.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business — such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency — are getting stronger. The math and physics of a planetary constraints get clearer. The math and physics of sustainability got some serious attention as well. Company Stories.