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Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 3 of 3

Strategy Driven

No one else is going to create the environment, motivation, and drive you need to get things accomplished. And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever! We’ve all been there at one time or another.

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Harvard Business Review

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business Review

Our call centers became the FEMA call centers. We’re now looking into developing other businesses and strengthening our presence in other industries. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. How do you motivate them?”

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Turn Your Company into a Customer Platform

Harvard Business Review

Even Apple, known for its culture under Steve Jobs that famously resisted allowing customers or outside developers to alter any of its platforms, finally bowed to a growing reality. The ability to make it easy for customers to alter products to better meet their needs is not confined to technology firms.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business Review

Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations. And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. Abraham Maslow’s oft-quoted “hierarchy of needs” — first published in 1943 — provides a good start.

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