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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Professors must think of themselves as experiential movie directors for a production of Global Business in the Networked Economy , orchestrating and coaching a multinational cast of actors through experiments – and stepping off of the stage for a broader purview. Use incentives to stimulate moves and counter-moves.

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

They both had a Starbucks inside the building (if there was ever an incentive to get me to work at a different company, that would be it) and strongly encouraged relationship building in meetings and interactions. Social acumen is essential to innovation, and requires a unique blend of tact, perseverance, skills and internal alliances.