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Is There A Sweet Spot For Digital Connectivity To Work After Hours?

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2023

This isn’t a problem just at holiday time, of course, as digital technology allows work to creep into our personal lives all year round. For instance, the researchers found that checking email can actually make us feel more connected to our colleagues, which in turn makes us more productive.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion."

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies are now taking advantage of this new marketing reality, becoming more skilled at getting their customers to advocate for them, create peer influence in their markets, and make important contributions in areas like product development and services. At Level 2, buyers perceive you as helping them get a job done.

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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

To me this means that he has, in essence, made the calculation that the use of social networks will replace the “badges” that my generation valued to determine reputation. He has opted for the social network over the fraternity as the basis for future advancement, and I hardly think he will be the last to do so.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Is blockchain appropriate?

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Despite this, the way companies convert digital anything into cash seems to be stuck in time, obeying rules that may have worked in the context of a physical product but make far less sense today. This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. The technology is there. Reputation.

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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Learning how to build and maintain tangible assets is crucial to leading a long and productive life.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social"

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. The idea was that if we use social tools, we would share information freely both within the organization and external marketplaces.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7% At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. in the U.S.,

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

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