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Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

This is the stage where individuals can innovate. Organizational Talent Consulting. Edmondson, A. & Hugander, P. 4 Steps to boost psychological safety at your workplace. Harvard Business Review. & Witt, M. Changing circumstances, disrupting habits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(6), 918-933.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. That’s no longer true.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. In 2005, they launched a U.S. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Gasoline Expenditure Forecast at Lowest Levels in 11 Years

MishTalk

Lower fuel expenditures are attributable to a combination of falling retail gasoline prices and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks that reduce the number of gallons used to travel a given distance. miles per gallon (mpg) for model-year (MY) 2005 cars to almost 28 mpg for MY2014, an increase of about 21%. The average U.S.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

At the same time, a focus on cost-cutting and efficiency aimed at staff functions in general—and at HR in particular—has pushed much HR transactional work into shared services or to outsourced vendors. For many HR departments, this process of “transformation,” as it is popularly called, has been a wrenching experience.