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MARCH 16, 2018

John Holcroft/Getty Images. We are living in an era of technology obsession and smartphone addiction. I hear it all the time: “I can’t go anywhere without my phone” or “I feel anxious when I’m not able to check email” or “If I’m not on my social feeds, I feel like I’m missing out.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more.

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How to Protect Culture During Rapid Growth. While rapid growth companies (20%+ per year) can be very exciting and meaningful places to work, high growth puts high pressure on organizational culture. At a high level, we define culture as the way things get done on a day-to-day basis. Most leaders look to protect culture during rapid growth by holding on to the meaningful values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and assumptions that enabled them to be successful so far.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Tim Ellis/Getty Images. What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? We know what it takes: a social movement. And social movements aren’t only the domain of community organizers and college students. Business people can set them in motion, too, as we are seeing right now.

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Excellent customer service—that special recipe of anticipating consumers’ needs, delivering on promises, and providing a pleasurable experience along the way—plays a key role in a brand’s ability to thrive. Great service almost always keeps customers and clients coming back for more. As consumers grow savvier and have mounting competition fighting for their dollars, a growing number of companies are taking customer service to the next level: concierge.

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MARCH 16, 2018

John Holcroft/Getty Images. We are living in an era of technology obsession and smartphone addiction. I hear it all the time: “I can’t go anywhere without my phone” or “I feel anxious when I’m not able to check email” or “If I’m not on my social feeds, I feel like I’m missing out.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Phil Ashley/Getty Images. On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. The opening trade was an auction of sorts—buyers and sellers entered orders, and Nasdaq calculated a price that would cause as many shares as possible to change hands.

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For an age group that’s constantly redefining itself, Pew Research has put in its (highly regarded) two-cents on what exactly ‘defines’ a millennial. Earlier this month, the research firm stated that those born between 1981 to 1996 will be labeled as millennials for future work, while temporarily dubbing anyone born past 1997 as “post millennials.” As a millennial myself, born two years before the new cut off, it’s interesting to write about my generation as something that can be def.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Hayon Thapaliya/DUCEPT Pascal/ hemis.fr/Getty Images. I hate meetings. They sit subconsciously in my brain, taking up space. I prepare for them in my notebooks. I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. And what do most meetings usually result in? You guessed it — more meetings. When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

juan díaz-faes for hbr. People who study creativity and innovation talk a lot about the value of “recombination” — bringing existing ideas, practices, processes, or technologies together in new ways or applying them in fresh contexts or markets. It’s a model that has led to many popular consumer products, such as leak-proof water bottles that borrow nozzles from shampoo dispensers, and home cholesterol testers that incorporate the inject/eject mechanism from CD playe

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