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The Roadmap to the Secret Sauce of Employee Engagement

Rick Conlow

A lack of engagement produces poorer productivity, morale, and overall business results. This costs companies billions of dollars in lost sales, and profits. In addition, it degrades the customer experience, sales and profits. This means better customer service, sales, productivity, and profits.

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How Are You Spending Your Social-Distancing “Vacation”?

Prudent Pedal

Accelerate Rattle and Pedal podcast production to bank as many episodes as possible-With busy schedules and family demands, Jason and I can find it difficult some weeks to keep to our recording schedule. Write 2 new white papers-I have five white papers swirling around in my mind. Firms talk about culture.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas.

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business

Zappos Insights was created to “share the Zappos Culture with the world” and help companies strengthen their own culture and core values. The Insights team offers tours of Zappos Headquarters, Q&A sessions with Zappos leaders, content subscriptions, and a “full culture immersion” through live events.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

In many functional areas, such as plant maintenance, purchasing, sales calls, or accounting, more traditional structures and processes likely will deliver lower cost, more repeatable outcomes and more scalable organizations. Amazon makes extensive use of well-researched white papers to help focus the management team on critical decisions.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. They treat recommendation engines more as e-commerce sales and marketing gimmicks — another feature to add to the site — than as crucial investments in virtuous cycle platforms.