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How to Succeed With Limited Resources

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve seen this first hand, when I look back at the most creative times in my career and in how I’m approaching my business now, the best solutions came when we felt the most stretched. I also watched the evolution at Verizon Wireless in this regard. The finance crowd speaks and entirely different language than sales or IT.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Author: How to Be Happy at Work. . Doug Winnie – A leading ACTIONCoach Executive Coach, he has built and sold several of his own multi-million dollar companies and now teaches business owners how to do the same.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Rather than do the conceptually hard and convention-challenging reorganizations of systems and finances required to truly transform care, it is easier to suggest tweaking the system and encouraging patients to use more primary care — and let primary care take it from there. It’s a Sisyphean task.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It could mimic pieces of Medtronic's approach, such as the diagnostic camps and a financing plan. And, of course, it would have to learn how to operate in India, a notoriously complex market.