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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

Companies should look beyond the typical goals of size, scale and efficiency – and instead seek to rebuild their capacity for growth. They are highly efficient at what they do, but struggle to do anything new. Back then, many on Wall Street worried that cultural and creative differences would damage the integration.

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Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative

Harvard Business

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Now Leonardo was clearly a genius of historical proportions, but think about how much more efficient he would have been with a decent search engine. So the first step to being creative is to become an expert in a particular area. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Creatively.

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NFTs are a dangerous trap

Seth Godin Blog

Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual frame of a Disney animated film from 1955, NFTs are designed to be the one and only, a shred of non-fungible reality in a world gone digital. It’s an ongoing waste that creates little in ongoing value and gets less efficient and more expensive as time goes on.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. And, like many of the 84 businesses we also studied, they find great things to do and then share them with the world through books, articles and films.

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