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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. Seeing these results, management at CTRIP offered all their employees the option to WFH, which boosted the firm’s productivity by 22%.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics.

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How AIG Moved Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making

Harvard Business

New developments in data science offer a tremendous opportunity to improve decision-making. In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” In addition to the examples above, AIG currently has around a dozen decision making related projects at various stages of development.