Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. This huge spending would generate more value for businesses and societies if the innovation success rate were just a little higher.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 3, 2018

What Is a Culture Champion? We define a culture champion as someone of influence who believes that organizational culture matters, that culture has a significant impact on business results, and acts accordingly. How Culture Relates to Business Results. Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture (how work gets done) accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing teams and organizations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images. On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. What caused this slump? It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

In the short run, weather emergencies can create a boost in the economy. They put people to work, require new building, emergency action and investment. But like a war, these boosts are only temporary. Over time, the work and cost of dealing with weather that doesn’t match our expectations produces a significant drag on all of us. There are significant human costs, of course, but for the bloodless economist, the costs of missed shipments, expensive commutes and ongoing spending to simply m

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

SuperStock/Getty Images. At some point in your career, you likely encountered a manager you believed was unfair. You probably thought to yourself, “ When I’m a manager, I’m never going to be like that! ” Now that you’ve been promoted to a management position, you’re probably dedicating significant amounts of time and energy to making unbiased decisions, but no doubt finding that the right balance is elusive.

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