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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

When the decision was made for Zappos to adopt the holacracy approach it was a big one – I wrote in an earlier blog in August 2014 that before ANY company can get to a full out holacracy adoption there is a ‘bridge’ that needs to be built in order to get there. ” must be asked and answered daily.

Energy 20
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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

When the decision was made for Zappos to adopt the holacracy approach it was a big one – I wrote in an earlier blog in August 2014 that before ANY company can get to a full out holacracy adoption there is a ‘bridge’ that needs to be built in order to get there. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

When the decision was made for Zappos to adopt the holacracy approach it was a big one – I wrote in an earlier blog in August 2014 that before ANY company can get to a full out holacracy adoption there is a ‘bridge’ that needs to be built in order to get there. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

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