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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Consider how USAA – the nation’s 6 th largest consumer P&C insurer – has reinvented how marketing, finance and data analytics work together, starting with a first-ever partnership between the CMO, CFO and Chief Data Analytics officer.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

If you mange organizational structure, technology, and expectations with conscious attention to the sharing of knowledge, a knowledge sharing environment will emerge easily. The very act of constructing mechanisms and processes as well as investing time into new knowledge sharing behaviors, changes the underlying dynamics of an organization.

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The GOP Needs a New Product, Not a New Brand

Harvard Business Review

It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House. Lafley and Roger L.

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