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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

I feel certain our public commitment to sustainability is a big driver of this engagement—92% of our people believe energy efficiency and sustainability are critical to our future business success, and we are giving them the encouragement and capabilities to help us achieve this long-term vision. million gallons of water.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

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How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. November 2016). This age is ripe with opportunity. Openness and Transparency.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Mulinge, P.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. 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).

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We Don’t Need Political Solutions for Global Trade — We Need Practical Ones

Harvard Business

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. In 2016 the trend began to reverse. (Disclosure: I’m a partner of Hexayurt.Capital , a fund that invests in creating the Internet of Agreements.). In Globalization 2.0,

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