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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business Review

It can serve as the basis of a design visioning workshop with a larger group about how and where people work and how they would envision working in new ways in the future. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. At an entrepreneurship ecosystems workshop I ran in St. Even better. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues.

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Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others

Harvard Business Review

government, though adoption varies by department, the Office of Personnel Management reports that remote work has increased job satisfaction, reduced employee turnover, and cut costs on several fronts, including real estate, utilities, and travel subsidies. In the U.S. Elsewhere, though, it’s been a different story.

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Positive Teams Are More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Yet most companies are using the same old methods: strategic plans, goal-setting, streamlining operations, reducing inefficiency. Jim Mallozzi, CEO of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation, consulted with Cameron during a difficult merger of two companies and during a time when his company was undergoing severe financial loss.