Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As Mark Kilby and I work through the images and text for the geographically distributed teams book, I wanted to clarify what collocated and distributed mean. Collocated teams sit near each other in space. However, not everyone agrees on what is “near.” Allen Curve. In Developing Products in Half the Time , Smith and Reinertsen use the Allen Curve to discuss the distance at which you can consider a team to be distributed as opposed to collocated.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

When you're cooking breakfast and the school bus is coming in just a few minutes, it's tempting (and apparently efficient) to yell up the stairs. If a recalcitrant teenager is hesitating before heading off to school (I know, sometimes it happens), go ahead and yell. Good luck with that. The alternative is to turn off the stove and walk up the stairs.

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Efficiency 54

Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As the labor market continues to change, base pay is rising much more quickly for the bottom 20 percent of earners than for other workers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, discusses the 120-year-old company’s ambitious sustainability agenda. He says an environmentally driven business model is good for the earth—and the bottom line. Liveris is one of the CEOs contributing to Harvard Business Review’s Future Economy Project , in which leaders detail their company’s efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Chip and Dan Heath explain how to add defining moments to your customer experience.

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Peter Stark

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Do you have the missing link that makes leaders great? When we survey participants in our seminars and ask, What are the characteristics of a great leader? The following are the most shared comments: Has a clear positive vision of the future. Provides clear goals and strategic direction. Good communicator. Hires strong team members. Builds a great team.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Chip and Dan Heath explain how to add defining moments to your customer experience.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Thanksgiving, of course, is a natural time to experience gratitude. Getting together with family, eating amazing food, and sharing the ways our lives have changed over the previous 365 days is a practice most people adhere to around the Holidays. Reflection is a powerful process that can remind you of the good things, and teach you something about the bad.

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MBO Partners

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A look at five popular industries for independent consultants.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Emma Todd/Getty Images. It’s a common adage that employees are the weak link in corporate cybersecurity. But I believe they are also the best defense, if they are given policies that are easy to follow and not too numerous and complex. Employee security training and best practices need to be user friendly and simple to be effective. Cyber attackers don’t need to have advanced hacking skills to break into corporate networks; they just need to know how to trick people into opening atta

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Awakening/Getty Images. The common perception is that strategy is done at the top of the org chart, and execution is done below. It is exactly the opposite – let me explain why. First, I should explain that I have always hated the use of the term “execution.” Its common definition is fundamentally unhelpful, and contributes to what executives often call “the strategy-execution gap.” Usually when businesspeople talk about “strategy” and “execution,&

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