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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business

Tronc investor Patrick Soon-Shiong also asserts that the technology will allow the company to make thousands of videos a day. Or that all we need to wow audiences is to scrape together more videos by automating the process? Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. Both statements are surreal. Eyeballs Instead of Experiences.

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Digital Leadership Is Not an Optional Part of Being a CEO

Harvard Business

The teams share information widely through the company’s video communication network, and everyone in the company uses standard mobile apps to communicate. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

Related Video. Instead, the manufacturing-era qualities of individual heroism, delivering product on deadline (whether proven or not), and contribution to high-level, often unaccountable business metrics were the main determinants of employee competence, success, and promotion. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management.

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Fix Your Social Media Strategy by Taking It Back to Basics

Harvard Business

Where you deliver the content matters too: Some social media channels are best for sharing short, current updates (Twitter), others are better for delivering video content (YouTube), some reach a younger audience with pictures (Instagram), and others have younger audiences with multimedia and high engagement rates (Snapchat).

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g.,

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The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change

Harvard Business

This includes introducing community policing; training officers in de-escalation skills and the use of non-lethal tactics; increasing the diversity of departments; improving data collection and public transparency; and enhancing the screening of police recruits. So why have most police departments failed to embrace these reforms?

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The Best Companies Aren’t Afraid to Replace Their Most Profitable Products

Harvard Business

Since then, WeChat has been constantly launching new services, from mobile payments to booking doctor appointments, from police reporting to taxi hailing, from video conferencing to mobile banking services. Recruit Holdings from Japan is a publishing and classified advertisement company, founded in 1963.