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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. Some are excellent. Some are excellent.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. …If failure is the prerequisite of success, businesses can no longer afford not to encourage risk taking.