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Fail Bigger Cheaper: A Three Word Manifesto

Harvard Business Review

To illustrate, consider the most straightforward example: Wall Street megabanks were propped up and lavishly resurrected, and your grandkids will likely still be paying the price — because they were too big to fail. But if you look closely, you might see those dynamics just about everywhere.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

The open source community routinely uses such approaches to spread knowledge of programming tricks and tips. Employees could, for example, maintain wikis or online forums that help share best practices and workarounds for particular problems. Play games. In one study, team members played an online version of "scavenger hunt."

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