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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers.