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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Instead, I offered them a deal—I would estimate the airfare and hotel and not charge them a cent more. What culture do you want? We have data that says performance reviews don't work. I've worked with clients who wanted me to itemize every penny I spent so that they could reimburse me. I had to itemize everything.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business

Today, brave new data scientists discipline k-means clusters and random graphs to proffer their predictions. Did I mention they have petabytes more data to play with and process? Because it means the assumptions, the data, the model and/or the analyses were wrong in some meaningfully measurable way.

Hotels 28
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The U.S. Isn’t Just Getting Older. It’s Getting More Segregated by Age.

Harvard Business

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. The partnership has been a triumph of efficiency — a win-win for the cultural climate of Judson and often-stretched student bank accounts.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. The BAH office culture is a happy one marked by flexibility and managers who are very supportive and collaborate with the team. Cool, or not? Pretty cool.

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How to Help Your Team Manage Grunt Work

Harvard Business

Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. The previous week’s data needs to be compiled and reported by Monday at 4pm. C-DOT had two floors of a five-star hotel as their workspace. How to Lose Your Best Employees. Whitney Johnson. Dawn Klinghoffer et al.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

In the language of networks, the value of the platform provider is not in creating the nodes (whether people, things, or data) but in fostering the connections between the nodes. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers.