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Strategy, Culture, Knowledge Management, Firm Performance: How Are They Linked?

Strategy Driven

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment. Further, executives have found that corporate culture impacts knowledge management.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion. In today’s hypercompetitive world, the organization absolutely needs you to bring your whole self to work. Diversity Managing yourself'

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. But prosperity is always going to accrue to those who innovate yesterday's rusting, creaking institutions. Somewhere out there is a radical institutional innovator who's choosing the latter, and has you squarely in his sights.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. Another tool that I recommend is the Relationship Action Plan , which can be used to manage an organization around loosely configured, flexible teams. Don't be afraid of social media.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. To improve the adoption rate the bank focused on a change program that dumbed down what qualified leads meant and also showed the managers the WIIFM (“What’s in it for me?”)