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U.S. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire

Harvard Business Review

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Robots and computer-operated tools are everywhere. The United States is at a dangerous juncture: Manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but the growth is still fragile. back to where it was a couple of years ago.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. 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 Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not. Insight Center.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

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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. The presentation quickly went viral and has been viewed more than five million times.