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Build Team Resilience: Work “Anywhere” and “Anytime” (Part 3)

Johanna Rothman

This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. I understand managers' desires to manage expenses. That's fine.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business

In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. following the introduction of checklists. The result?

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Vincent Tsui for HBR. And yet progress in HR analytics has been glacially slow.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business

Since 2013 the number of customers who expect a response through social media has doubled, according to research from Sprout Social , yet seven out of eight messages to companies go unanswered for 72 hours. Develop a social care team that can address all areas of social information efficiently and effectively.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). To maximize their technology and talent investments, organizations need a culture that aligns with data-driven decision-making (Bartlett, 2013).

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