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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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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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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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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

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. HR leaders in 2013 and 2016 and found that HR departments that use all of the LAMP elements play a stronger strategic role in their organizations.

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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. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term. The team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place.

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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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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”