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Plan a Better Meeting with Design Thinking

Harvard Business

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

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Tired of the Bears? Get Bearcrow!

MishTalk

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. The company failed on multiple fronts.

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. The advantages of collaborating are clear: it reduces costs, lowers risk and allows carmakers to share in the expertise already gathered by these tech firms, all of which speeds up the time it takes to bring products to market.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. D-BASE/Getty Images. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. We didn’t want to overlay them with the Ford bureaucracy.

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