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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

After experimenting with a number of potential behavioral metrics, we settled on using one that approximates average weekly working hours as our primary measure. Both of these data points served as calls to action to senior leadership to invest more into creating a culture of both engagement and productivity.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Automotive telematics can capture metrics such as the frequency and length of trips and unsafe driving behaviors like hard braking and rapid acceleration. Four Operating Pillars. Digital leaders are 2.3x

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Cable companies enviously and despairingly benchmark Netflix and Amazon to learn how they quasi-autonomously cultivate subscribers and binge viewers.

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Friday Fusion: July 10, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Your skills remind of me Matt Olpinski, a freelancer/consultant featured in my article on the best consultant websites : Here’s what Matt had to say about his freelancing website: The main reason why I have the website is because I don’t want to waste time, money, and energy on chasing down new clients. Instead, I want them to come to me.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. If culture precludes more junior product managers from reaching out to more senior product managers, that will manifest in the phone calls and is a big red flag. Are they top-down, bottom-up, or laterally generated?

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Collect Your Employees’ Data Without Invading Their Privacy

Harvard Business

We’ve seen a wide range of cultures, processes, and attitudes about employee privacy, and learned that in every case there are seven key points that need to be addressed for any internal predictive analytics initiative to be successful: Find a sponsor.

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