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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

Do you work for a firm where managers think employees really have to work (what is called) “full time”? Around the time of the dot-com boom in 2000, founders Liann Eden and Dena McCallum saw that many of their ex-McKinsey colleagues would love to continue doing some consulting work, just not full time. Does it work?

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Morning Advantage: Take My CFO, Please

Harvard Business Review

At first blush, it sounds like something straight out of the mind of Scott Adams, but John McCallum's guide to management one-liners in the Ivey Business Journal has its sincere merits. The Far Reach of Supportive Senior Managers (Strategy+Business). HE LIKES ME, HE REALLY LIKES ME. BONUS BITS: Dining and Wining.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.