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The gobbledygook generator
Is your communication also clouded with business jargon?
Category : strategy-and-innovation
Haier is disrupting itself - before someone else does
By turning itself into an internet-based platform company, Haier is doing something that has no precedents anywhere in the world. Can it pull off this audacious plan?
Stories At Work
Continuing on the 20% sales increase journey
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a super salesperson
Alternatives to the annual performance review
Companies are abandoning the age-old tradition of the annual performance review. What can possibly replace it?
Dispatches from China
Haier's quest for the perfect egg
White goods maker Haier is trying out ideas from manufacturing and internet technologies to egg production. Result: Efficiency at China's egg farms has improved tremendously
Firing the Annual Performance Review
Why the annual performance review is finally getting the pink slip. The first of a two-part article
The Gist
Ideas from outside can jumpstart your innovation effort
Every industry thinks it is unique and has little to learn from someone else. Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven’s book, 'Not Invented Here: Cross-Industry Innovation', shows how you can learn from other industries
Stories At Work
Interested in a 20% increase in sales?
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
New Rules of Business
Improve customer satisfaction at minimal cost: Convert customers into 'employees'
Involve customers and cede control over certain activities by providing them an obstacle-free, easy-to-navigate and secure platform to perform tasks
The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?
The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of 'Rise of the Robots', explains the implications for human beings and the market-driven capitalist system.
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