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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Don't Read Infographics When You're Feeling Anxious

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, as research in this area grows more nuanced, companies producing visual analytic tools and products may be able to enhance their effectiveness by designing with emotion in mind. Recently published research from Ph.D. What does this mean for companies designing data visualization tools and environments?

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. Second, organizations.