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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. Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. One of the most overlooked aspects of innovation is how much technology can enhance productivity. You and Your Team Series.

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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. Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.”

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