Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. It’s your job to figure out your customer’s motivations: “What would it take to get your boss to sign off on a project or to get your clients excited about what you have to offer?” ” But that notion is outdated. ” Here’s how to get better at it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Are employees fully engaged and motivated? To some, those of us who use analytics are no different than the strict headmasters and factory owners that populate the novels of Charles Dickens. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. A man who is.

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