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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. In another provocative study , researchers investigated how companies could use online role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest" to build leadership and teamwork skills.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Obviously, it is critical for established firms to track technological innovations in their industries and to understand their sources. How much of it is driven by your tool suppliers?

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Krolick himself is a pilot, and although he does admit that his pilot skills don’t necessarily help him out in the day-to-day aspects of marketing, they do help him appreciate the challenges that exist on the front lines and cross-functionally. They told him that the pulp made the juice seem as if it were freshly squeezed.