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Last Minute Office Christmas Party Themes to Lift Your Spirits

HR Digest

A slight twist on the classical passing-the-parcel game, in this game a big box is wrapped multiple times. The team which manages to get to the gift the fastest is declared the winner. Virtual Christmas party themes just need to follow one rule – Everyone joining in must be able to participate and have fun. Unearthing the gift.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Addressing the agriculture value chain—soil testing, facilitation of inputs and credit, market linkage, and field advisory services—is part and parcel of agriculture development initiatives. Watershed and natural resource management initiatives have resulted in increase in water table ranging from 3.5

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. The company’s president convened a meeting of the executive management group to organize the improvement effort. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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How Work Saved One Woman’s Life

Harvard Business Review

Even middle management has its value, he says. When Google founder and CEO Larry Page cut out a bunch of managers in an effort to reduce "friction," the result was frustration and confusion. I''m not here to participate in the bigger social debate on whether exploiting women as booth babes is bad for us all in the long run," he writes.