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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Create the role of “external talent manager.”

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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. He and his two Millennial cofounders wanted me to help turn their growing tech startup into an international giant, as their Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. Sounded good.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If Many managers inherit their teams, which often means they aren’t creating new goals, but clarifying existing ones. The first few weeks are critical.

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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Harvard Business Review

Writing in response to the publication that year of IDEO cofounder David Kelley’s The Art of Innovation , Schrage argues that IDEO’s ability to innovate lies not so much in the methodologies of brainstorming, hot teams, and rapid prototyping that Kelley describes but in its culture.

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

To date, 19 CEOs of S&P 500 companies — such as Becton Dickinson, AETNA, 3M, PG&E, and Unilever — have presented their plans to institutional investors representing in excess of $25 trillion in assets under management. The expectations for an effective long-term plan are described in SII’s Investor Letter to CEOs.

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. That may sound like a bit of a wild question but an essential element of strategy is, to state the obvious, thinking about what we want to create in the future.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.