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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. They do so because poor execution in retail is treated as inevitable, or attributed to the limitations of store managers or staff.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

Here are six strategies to help you and your team members achieve better work-life sustainability through setting and keeping boundaries. Communicate that the organization’s success is based on a marathon, not a sprint. Redistribute work more evenly. So the only reward for doing good work is the addition of more work.