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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group and co-author of the bestselling book Groundswell , was generous to include me on her distribution list for an advanced reading copy of her new book Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead. customer service, marketing), and organizational models (e.g.,

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How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork

Harvard Business

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

A second, 90-story office tower, 30 Hudson Yards, is also almost fully booked and will serve as the new corporate headquarters for Time Warner and KKR. A few dozen consultants working in technology for the financial service industry are based at the Broadway office. This New York Office is located at 1345 Avenue of the Americas.

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Building a Resilient Global Enterprise Inspired by Biology

BCG

Many global enterprises today have succeeded by following a simple recipe: procure, manufacture, and assemble in the lowest-cost locations, link these using reliable, standardized logistics and information technology, market the resulting products globally, and book profit in low-tax havens.

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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business

As I was doing research and analysis for my recent book , I found that one of the best ways organizations can create a sense of purpose for their employees is to help connect their day-to-day work with the impact it has in their community and globally. I’ve identified several common themes in our talks, which I’ll share here.

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Best Business Books 2016: Marketing

Strategy+Business

This year's best business books on marketing tend to "think small." While information technology allows company to amass and analyze huge volumes of aggregate data on customer behavior, the authors of these books argue we need to understand and relate to consumers at the micro level. albeit in wildly different ways.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently? One of them has clearly been information technology. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap.