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Working Backward Is Key To Successful Pilots

The Horizons Tracker

This process forces the project team to consider what a successful outcome looks like and what might be required to achieve that outcome. This is not to say, of course, that projects will automatically go from successful pilot to market with nothing in between. A staged process.

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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

This was seen in a study called the Hawthorne Effect , which was run by Elton Mayo at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works factory, outside of Chicago, IL, in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of workplace conditions on individual productivity. Embrace it and enjoy it!