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paul garbett for hbr. A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. Responding to this promise, many companies have started putting these ideas to use: A recent study of 170 organizations with $1 billion or more in revenue found that over 82% are currently using a lean startup approach in some aspect of their business.

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MINCHU/Getty Images. In a work culture with too many meetings, we often look for tactics to get out of meetings. But sometimes you need to get into a meeting, perhaps because the decisions made there will have implications for you or your team, or maybe because you feel you’ve been left out of important discussions. Whether you haven’t been invited because of an oversight or an intentional decision by the meeting organizer, you can take action to secure your seat at the table.

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molotovcoketail/Getty Images. The implicit promise of work-life flexibility is that it can address workers’ needs to reconcile work demands with personal and family needs, all while benefiting firms in the form of a greater ability to attract and retain employees and in potential performance gains. The idea of flexibility-driven mutual gains is especially appealing now, when gender equity is at the media forefront and where nonwork demands and job stress are on the rise.

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When you first start out, how can you let people know you’re available for consulting without being that terrible cliché of a salesperson? Well it’s all about making connections with others and in this article I outline a few really good places to start.

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How to Give Effective Feedback as a New Manager. Giving effective feedback is a manager’s most useful tool in shaping performance and developing the team. But don’t use the graphic above as an example. The illustration, rather than showing how to give effective feedback as a new manager, is more an example of what NOT to do. Five Components of Effective Feedback.

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When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. When you’ve spent your career primarily within the public sector, moving to the private sector can mean getting outside your comfort zone – and for many of us, selling our services is definitely falls into that category.

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filo/Getty Images. Do you value bitcoin in dollars or dollars in bitcoin? Few serious economists imagine that the new cryptocurrencies, for all the hype, will make national currencies redundant. By and large they are right, because conventional money actually does a pretty good job. The U.S. dollar and other reserve currencies have historically performed well as a medium of exchange and as a store of value — the two principal functions of a currency.

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Creative institutions get bigger so that they can avoid doing things that feel risky. They may rationalize this as leverage, as creating more impact. But it's a coin with two sides, and the other side is that they do proportionally more things that are reliable and fewer things that feel like they might fail. In other words, hiring more people makes their useful creative productivity go down.

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In today’s connected world, it’s essential for brands to think consumer-first. But how does a brand get to the point where that thinking is not only embraced, but also put into action across the company? At Adidas, it all starts with digital. “Digital is one of our core strategic priorities. We have ambitious goals that we’ve set until 2020,” says Joseph Godsey, Global Head of Digital Brand Commerce at Adidas. “We want to create a consumer experience that is p

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Efficiently running an independent business involves significant time and effort. This infographic summarizes common tasks and solutions.

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Read More from Google. Time Is of The Essence: How Leading Marketers Match Messages to the Right Moments. How Leading Marketers Get Ahead in Today’s Data-Driven World. Is Your Marketing in the Right Place but at the Wrong Time? How Consumer Insights and Digital Have Led to Adidas’ Growth. Trust, Transparency and Value-How Google Is Working to Improve Online Advertising for Everyone.

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MAY 7, 2018

Don’t avoid confrontation.

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With so much information and technology at their fingertips, today’s consumers expect to get things done quickly and have their questions answered in an instant. The same could be said for modern marketers — expectations for their technology stack are on the rise too. Bain & Company, in partnership with Google, surveyed nearly 1,700 global marketing and media decision makers to learn more about the value they’re gaining from investments in digital information and technology

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By Laura Beaudin and Francine Gierak, Bain & Company. Time is running out on personalized marketing as a means of continually raising the return on investment of campaigns. The use of advanced data analytics to identify the right customers, while still valuable, is reaching a plateau. Proliferation of digital channels and options for customers raises the importance of another, still underappreciated, variable: message timing.

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By Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, Google. Digital advertising has played an important role in making the internet the free, open, vital place it is today. Many of the things we all enjoy — websites, blogs, social networks, apps and videos — are funded by ads. Advertising helps reduce the digital divide, empowers creative voices and spurs global economic opportunity.

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