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4 Ways to a Better Bottom Line

Lead Change Blog

Global mindset is truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. A global mindset is a critical skill parallel to legal, marketing, sales, or strategy. It fills a strategic tactical need of operating in today’s business setting. Understand customer behavior. Negotiate with vendors.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

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Companies That Do Right by Their Workers Start by Elevating Their Definition of Success

Harvard Business Review

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. Just as noteworthy, John Lewis operates as a full-fledged democracy that distributes power up and down the ranks. Our focus is on social capital.”

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How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Send the host of the meeting an email, saying you wanted to check in about the meeting in question (let’s call it the Operations Update meeting). “Dear Annika, do you have 15 minutes to chat about the Operations Update? ” Stay neutral. ” Stay neutral. Focus on the process rather than the personalities.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Feature prioritization and roadmap planning. Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. He believed that if he was truly determined to, he could probably persuade Rogier to abandon his holacracy plans.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. But it is not clear what it does to help address the rage building at home in the U.S. Perhaps U.S. Distributional Issues.