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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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In Product Development, Let Your Customers Define Perfection

Harvard Business

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable. How Porsche got the product right.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. In 2003, Mercer bought Oliver Wyman and it became Mercer Oliver Wyman, one of the first in a confusing line of name changes that MMC have tried to untangle over the past few years.

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The 3 Stages of a Country Embracing Renewable Energy

Harvard Business

Earlier this year, the European Union announced that its climate and renewable energy targets—a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of EU energy from renewable sources, and a 20% improvement in energy efficiency—are actually on track to realization by the year 2020. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Commitment to follower development: Servant leaders see their followers' potential and value beyond their tangible contributions to the business. 2003, October 16). Servant-leadership: Developments in theory and research. Building community: A community is defined by shared social identification among the members. Greenleaf, R.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Most industries in the U.S.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986.

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