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Creating More Fun Working Conditions

Strategy Driven

COO Eric Spencer agrees. Online retailer Zappos, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a huge reputation as a fun place to work. About once a month, employees at TechniGraphics, the engineering data company headquartered in Wooster, Massachusetts, completely empty the building during lunch time.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. In much the same way, your network builds your reputation as a trustworthy person, attracting projects and colleagues to you that you otherwise would not have sought out.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Good Leaders Acknowledge What Can't Be Done

Harvard Business Review

Leslie Perlow did a fascinating study of engineers doing software development and observed them frequently using their time in ways that could only make it more difficult to meet their aggressive deadline. And here's one last piece of research I can't resist citing in a discussion of why leaders are so likely to double-down on bad bets.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Harvard Business Review

In any case, the inaction allowed what''s described as "absolutely unsophisticated and uninteresting" malicious code to wreak havoc on the company''s reputation and customers'' lives. There may have been some skepticism about the system, because it was new to Target. Worked like a charm.