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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. Here are five of the most important outcomes. You and Your Team Series. Getting More Work Done. Rebecca Knight.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. But dont count them out for long; if theres one thing Chinese companies are good at, its implementing a "fast follower" strategy. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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