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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. Many managers have been fearful of using social media beyond marketing purposes. Many skills are difficult to train and develop. — can play a huge role in doing so.

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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix

Harvard Business Review

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. Insecurity. If that sounds simple, it's anything but. I can't build your own rocketship for you, nor can I take your quantum leap.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Still another is moving the older equipment to less-demanding applications or to plants in emerging markets.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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How to Gain Credibility When You Have Little Experience

Harvard Business Review

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. Leverage your research skills. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to use your research skills to synthesize and master industry specific knowledge, trends, and information.

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