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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

Increase in gig and short term contract work MANY hybrid work teams (for a while) THEN in 3 to 5 years, there will be a “back to office” movement written about in HBR and other business magazines. “Belief in social-atomism develops linear causality. ‘ – Dave Snowden.

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A Simple Tool You Need to Manage Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Management knows it and so does Wall Street: The year-to-year viability of a company depends on its ability to innovate. Yet many companies have not yet learned to manage innovation strategically. One tool we've developed to help companies manage their innovation portfolio is the Innovation Ambition Matrix (see the chart below).

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What it Means Today to be 'Connected'

Harvard Business Review

I was recently selected as one of Britain's "best connected" women by Director , a business magazine. Connecting with people and innovative ideas is more important than ever. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. — E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910).

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Know Which Strategy Style Is Right for Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move. But it didn't need to.

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What If You Don't Want to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business Review

Management titles allow us to mark our growth, and our maturity. For example, when my husband started as a young writer at Time magazine, there was only one career path — work hard as a staff writer, and eventually you might be promoted to senior editor. He believes that fixed organizational structure impedes innovation.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

They're failing to take control and develop a plan. They may think they're on top of things because their companies use apps to provide magazines or annual reports. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. Once again, too many CEOs are hesitating.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention. Ultimately, the biggest factor in that wage growth was technology, the productivity growth it unlocked, and the development of mature labor markets that valued the weavers’ skills.