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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business

On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. But collaboration is not consensus. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.”

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. The platform facilities virtual meetings and any financial transactions between the parties.