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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working. That’s where neuroscience comes in.

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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. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. Or a desire to invest in other newer parts of the business — the solar, the housing, the call centers, etc? and Caribbean.

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

Harvard Business Review

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management. The Organization’s Role.

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Turn Your Company into a Customer Platform

Harvard Business Review

This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it. The ability to make it easy for customers to alter products to better meet their needs is not confined to technology firms. What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It.

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