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Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
Author Kathryn M Bartol , N. Sharon Hill
If you think sophisticated communication technologies are the ticket to your virtual team’s success, think again. It’s not the tech that matters — it’s how people use it. New research reveals five strategies for conquering distance and impro....
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Master the Challenges of Multichannel Pricing
Author Sajal Kohli , Manish Chopra , Gadi BenMark , Walter Baker
Retail customers may accept different prices on different channels — but retailers need to manage new complexities to make it work. These include understanding what customers value in each channel and how that affects what they will pay, giving store employee....
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Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation
Author Beth Humberd , Scott Latham
The robots are coming! But counter to popular belief, it’s not just low-paying jobs that are at risk of automation. According to research by Scott Latham and Beth Humberd, predicting which jobs are vulnerable requires analyzing the type of value job holders d....
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Digital Transformation Opens New Questions — and New Problems to Solve
Author Hal Gregersen
Modest questions about how today’s problems could be solved more effectively lead to applications of technology with easily foreseeable gains. But when people start asking bigger, bolder questions that challenge basic assumptions about how a problem has been ....
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Technical Debt Might Be Hindering Your Digital Transformation
Author Prashant Shukla , Tomas Nyström , Ranmath Venkataraman , Adam Burden , Edwin Van der
Data reveals the C-suite recognizes that technical debt — the “price” companies pay for short-term technological fixes — hinders their ability to innovate and adapt in the digital age. One strategy to combat technical debt? Digital decouplin....
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How Innovative Partnerships Are Changing Health Care Delivery
Author Regina E. Herzlinger , Steven C. DeMaio
Innovation is transforming the health care industry, with unlikely collaborators teaming up to provide higher-quality, lower-cost services. In this interview with MIT SMR, Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, an expert in health care delivery and in....
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Author Louis Strauss , Anthony Stevens
Learn how to succeed in the digital economyThe paradigms of big business have changed. Business models that were once lucrative now seem to barely move the needle. Incumbents of the old guard find themselves superseded by new, digitally-charged, data-fuelled organi....
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Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
Author Mark L. Zyla , Ervin L. Black
Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangiblesAccounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets is a guide to one of the most challenging aspects of business valuation. Not only must executives and valuation professionals understand th....
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Leveraging Constraints for Innovation
Author Abbie Griffin , Jelena Spanjol , Sebastian Gurtner
Provides managers with actionable insight into a select set of innovation constraints and how to best deal with them This PDMA Essentials Book, the third in this series, provides a framework of individual, organizational, and market and societal constraints that gu....
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Author Allison Maslan
Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s a mind-bending journey that causes millions of business owners around the globe to either throw in the towel—or avoid risk entirely and suffer from smallness and mediocrity. Most of these businesses fail becaus....
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What Are Your Blind Spots?: Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back
Author Rich Berens , Jim Haudan
Uncover your blind spots and reset your leadership approach for long-lasting success in any business Far too many business leaders today are using outdated practices to engage and motivate their people―and they’re failing miserably. Truly resilient, thriving organi....
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Author Rob Salafia
Proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a professional presence that’s powerful, authentic, and effective.Increase your poise, presence, and influence for more dynamic leadershipAre you showing up as the best vers....
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Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Followership
Author David Baniyelme Zoogah
The concept of followership, like leadership, is not new to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of creation. It is so pervasive in human interactions that attempts to study it are often met with ridicule. In the organization literature, followersh....
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Social Media, Organizational Identity and Public Relations
Author Amy Thurlow
Public relations has been swift to grasp social media, yet its impact on public relations practice remains relatively unexplored. This book focusses on a way of understanding organizational identity construction in a virtual context, developing scholarship on the i....
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The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success
Author Mary Thengvall
Discover the true value of Developer Relations as you learn to build and maintain positive relationships with your developer community. Use the principles laid out in this book to walk through your company goals and discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to....
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Achieving Business Agility: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World
Author John Orvos
Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear, actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a p....
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Lean Entrepreneurship: Innovation in the Modern Enterprise
Author Howard Abrams , George Watt
Utilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chan....
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Author David Creelman , Peter Navin
Instead of thinking of Human Resources as a kind of upgraded personnel department it can be thought of as an analogue to marketing. Just as the Chief Marketing Officer curates an experience to get the best lifetime value from customers, the head of HR can curate an....
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The Art of Executive Coaching: Secrets to Unlock Leadership Performance
Author Nadine Greiner
Embrace the Power of Executive CoachingAs businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their o....
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Author Chris Cros
Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed that workplaces that are actively engaged outperform workplaces that are disengaged in every measure. Crosby’s two-volume set contains eight activities that create an engaged workplace and improve results.Volume One, ....
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From Behind the Desk to the Front of the Stage
Author David Worsfold
From Behind the Desk to the Front of the Stage discusses all aspects of public speaking with particular emphasis on the skills people need to be successful in their business careers. It covers a wide range of different presentation challenges, including making an im....
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Author Nathan Jamail
Shows leaders in the middle just how powerful they are without pretending that leading employees and reporting to bosses don’t require different skills. It fills the gap between the books those leaders read and the information they actually need and answers the big....
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HBR Guide for Women at Work (HBR Guide Series)
Author Harvard Business Review
Make your career what you want it to be.Women regularly face unfair challenges in the workplace--from being passed over for promotion to being ignored in conversation. Unconscious bias and negative assumptions are working against them. As a woman, how can you break....
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The Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook
Author Brook Manville , Ron Ashkenas
The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills.Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today." The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest....
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Author George Desvaux , Musta Chironga , Acha Leke
The Definitive Guide to Doing Business in AfricaFor global and Africa-based companies looking to access new growth markets, Africa offers exciting opportunities to build large, profitable businesses. Its population is young, fast-growing, and increasingly urbanized....
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Author Marco Iansiti , Michael E. Porter , Thomas H. Davenport , Joan C. Williams , Harvard
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors f....
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Author Thomas Zoega Ramsoy , Kyle Nel , Nathan Furr
New Tools to Overcome the Human Barriers to ChangeLeaders know that their job is to transform their organizations to keep pace with technology and an ever-changing business environment. They also know that they are bound to fail in doing so. But this discouraging p....
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Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett , Joan C. Williams , Deborah Tannen , Herminia Ibarra , Harvard B
What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected th....
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Author Freek Vermeulen
Could some "best practices" be…bad?Have you ever wondered why most newspapers are so large? Or why management consultants work such long hours? Or why hotels still insist on having check-in desks? Ask anyone in these industries, and their answer will be the same: "....
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Innovation, Research and Development Management
Author Olga Lelebina , Martine Le Boulaire , Lise Gastaldi , Natalia Bobadilla , Patrick Gi
In today’s business environment, as organizations constantly seek to growth and develop through the optimization of their innovative and creative potential, understanding the critical issues and management practices in R & D is essential. This book provides a c....
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