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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

Metric obsession. In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. Yet, it tried to sell its digital cameras using the same business model as its film-based cameras – by aiming to make high margins on instant film sales.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. We work with a lot of really cool clients. Okay, awesome.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón. Kevin Kniffin. Leaders set the tone.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

Frosted film or patterned glass walls instead of clear glass. I often see two situations that involve the fuel for their brainpower, where my clients were missing an opportunity to positively impact the productivity of their organization: Catered meeting menus. Does he have a dedicated workspace that’s conducive to productivity

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. This needs to change.