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Managing Results by Defining “Deliverables” Early On

QAspire

You can ask your team member to perform a task or you can ask them to complete a deliverable (complete with all product and process requirements). Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community). Most of the times, in quest of “what”, “why” is missed out. Check out the feature.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? Given these studies tying air quality to health, we wanted to see whether improved ventilation affects cognitive function, an indicator of worker productivity. schools (1400 ppm). Chances are it’s not often.

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Ford's Impressive Sustainability Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ford then worked back from this necessary future reality, determined the share of global emissions coming from Ford products (around 2%), and mapped out the fuel-efficiency levels required to meet the scientific mandate. Relying on hard climate science to map out non-negotiable boundaries for your products is, to say the least, very unusual.

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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

The whole notion of green business rests on the assumption that corporations want to solve the societal or environmental problems they take on, that they are not lying to us, and that we can trust what they say about their products and practices. As an eco-conscious TDI owner recently asked one of us: What am I supposed to do now?

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