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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Sales isn’t what you do. Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? Perhaps they’ve spotted an edge skill that could transform how your unit operates. Hire to train.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

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Facebook's Influence on Interactive Loyalty - Think customers: The.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Expectations matter.

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