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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. Play to your strengths, not your rival’s.

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Antagonistic Mediators Can Make Resolving Disputes Easier

Harvard Business Review

Yet new research that I conducted with Ting Zhang of Columbia Business School and Mike Norton of Harvard Business School suggests this conventional wisdom is wrong. Gaining trust by establishing rapport and understanding between the mediator and negotiators is a commonly espoused best practice for facilitating resolution of a dispute.

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Treat Employees Like Business Owners

Harvard Business Review

Employee loyalty and engagement are hot topics, and for good reason. “Any other restaurant, I would just be scraping by,” shift supervisor Amanda Norton told the Boston Globe. ” You can imagine what all this does for employee loyalty and commitment.

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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees

Harvard Business Review

Loyalty comes from the daily work itself, a sense of community accepting of individuality, and constant reminders that what employees do matters. As my HBS colleague Michael Norton shows in his book Happy Money , giving to others boosts happiness. There are no promises that these jobs will last forever.

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How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight

Harvard Business Review

David Norton, the prior CMO of Caesars Entertainment, suggests that "data infrastructure should follow an understanding of the business questions. Data can spring from a number of places: loyalty cards, purchases, social media behavior, website analytics, surveys, etc. Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second.

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