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w Can You Make Your Resolution a Reality? It's all in the Timing

Women on Business

When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.” For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/24/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. Feedback loops and other methods of data-driven storytelling are our favorite way that people analytics makes culture transformation happen.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience. Regularly ask yourself these questions: Who will receive the knowledge? What are their preferences?

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Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Below, we review briefly some of the innovative approaches to better understand patient needs that have been tried in various organizations, including the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Methodist Hospital in Houston, St. From the Editors of Harvard Business Review and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. Storytelling" by entrepreneurs--conjuring a vision of a better world that could be brought about by their venture--can encourage resource owners to downplay risks and in the process commit more resources than they would if they had not been inspired.