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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them.