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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

Those include, for example, the entertainment industry: What would it take to get scriptwriters and directors to stop portraying people operating on no sleep as models of machismo and dedication? They also have the power, through their policies, to change how employees work (and how managers encourage them to). Social Influence.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? All of which might just hold a powerful lesson for the future of advantage — national organizational, and personal. Let's call it Enronia, for short. Innovation atrophy. Think again.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.