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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business

Just four short years ago, GE CEO Jeff Immelt declared that “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” We measured digital innovation based on the number of digital patents the firm had secured from 1998 to 2010.

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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 million jobs were lost.

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

Harvard Business

Michael, the director of strategy for an American insurance company, does not work as much as Hanna. But even though he works an average of 45 hours a week, and is single with no kids, he has a hard time “switching off” and unwinding from his job – he is constantly checking his email and worrying about work.

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