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And Creativity for All

Innovation Excellence

Don’t let the past, your management, or your fears censor you. If there is Capex involved, engage early enough the person who will cut the check. He is passionate about innovation, brand management, brand communication, and international business. Don’t be afraid to ridicule ‘God,’ like Dollar Shave Club did with Gillette.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated.

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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. The report includes case studies for Dow, which also utilized a constructed wetland at one of its facilities, reducing capex expense by a factor of 10. Most obviously, we get all our food, minerals, and metals from the ground, and forests provide wood and oxygen.

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Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. IT management Information & technology' Unfortunately, this is not the view in most C-suites. They never have! It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives. The same kinds of dynamics probably play out among lower-level managers too, Roussanov says in this Wharton video.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. We calculate that U.S.