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Culture Management: It’s a Thing

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Sure, larger, more complex organizations may have larger, more complex financial management systems and processes in place, but we all accept that financial management is a requirement for successful organizations of all shapes and sizes. Let’s be as disciplined and focused with culture as we have been with finance. Constantly.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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How Twitter’s Leadership Drama Explains its Success

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this year, Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman published The Founder’s Dilemmas , the result of a decade’s worth of survey data on the challenges startups face. Put another way, the frequent swapping out of executive roles at different stages has almost certainly been key to Twitter’s success to date.

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Why Strategies Go off the Rails

Harvard Business Review

In other words, everyone felt individually successful, even though the company experienced a collective failure. In any case, if the culture of the company does not encourage dissent , the resistance will go underground. People will voice their support but not actively do anything to make it happen.

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What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers

Harvard Business Review

For each completed survey, we calculated an overall BMI score by aggregating responses across seven categories of bureaucratic drag: bloat, friction, insularity, disempowerment, risk aversion, inertia, and politicking. We computed an overall BMI based on scale of 20 to 100, based on answers to the first twenty questions of the survey.

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. BL: Not really. BL: A good question.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Talent plays only a tiny role in your success; what really matters is what you do. by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

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