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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

Company 50
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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

“I’ve learned that the best thing for my company is to do what I believe in… Don’t put something on the market just because everyone else is doing it. ’ But one thing that played well for me is that I spent months in Iowa, making the film Cold Turkey. We asked her how she stays ahead of the curve.

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Brexit and the Triumph of Insularity

Harvard Business Review

The latter has triumphantly referred to the result as Britain’s “ independence day ,” possibly an allusion to a rousing speech in the Hollywood Sci-Fi film of the same name that featured very scary aliens. Market volatility aside, the true economic impact in the short term is unlikely to be very great.

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Former Skeptics Can Be Your Best Spokespeople

Harvard Business Review

” There is nothing in the technique of the commercials — no overwrought music, no tricky film angles or editing — that gets in the way of the plain sincerity of this message. Apple hired the great documentarian Errol Morris to film its 2002 “Switchers” campaign.