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To the right is the rented garage in which Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began forming, in 1939, a two-person company — the original Silicon Valley startup. Working with limited resources, the pair created a series of products—starting with audio…
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In a classic article they wrote for the Harvard Business Review (July 1994 issue), Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad share their thoughts about how to create the future by asking the right questions and then obtaining the right answers. As…
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Why do so many teams fail to live up to their promise? Because of the obstinate belief that human beings are rational entities. And because team designers fail to take into account the subtle, unconscious dynamics that influence human behavior.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Harvard Business Review Staff for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…
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Until recently, I did not know that Modern Survey released the results of its Fall 2013 Employee Engagement Study (“State of Engagement: Unveiling the Latest Employee Engagement Research”) on December 3, 2013. The study finds that while employee engagement is…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Lareina Yee for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. She poses five questions can help start a challenging management conversation. To read the complete article, check out other…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Erin Griffith for FORTUNE magazine in which she observes that the billion-dollar tech startup was supposed to be the stuff of myth. Now they seem to be…everywhere. To read the complete…
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There are valuable lessons to be learned from others’ awkward moments. For example, in October 1998 off the coast of Kerry, Ireland, there was this exchange: Irish: “Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south, to avoid a…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ram Charan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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Guy Kawasaki’s Required Reading
Here is an excerpt from an article by Theodore Kinni for strategy+business published by Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Company). He shares Guy Kawasaki‘s comments about four of his favorite business books.. To read the complete article, check out others, learn…
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