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Weekly Hotlist: Europe's Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

 

October 30, 2015 Europe's Other Crisis: A Digital Recession By Bhaskar Chakravorti, Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi The continent's glaring tech gap is growing.

Business models The Billion-Dollar Opportunity in Single-Serve Food by Eddie Yoon, Michelle Stacy People will pay more for less. Leadership You Don't Need Charisma to Be an Inspiring Leader by Nick Tasler And neuroscience proves it. Organizational culture Why Companies Are So Bad at Treating Employees Like People by Herminia Ibarra Restoring humanity by fiat doesn't work. Internet How People Are Actually Using the Internet of Things by H. James Wilson, Baiju Shah, Brian Whipple To enhance their lives at home. Data Can Your Data Be Trusted? by Thomas C. Redman Flawed doesn't mean unusable. Education Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses by Lauren Rivera A flawed approach that misses a huge pool of talent. Technology Assessment: Does Your Team Think Digitally? by Tanguy Catlin, Jay Scanlan, Paul Willmott Success depends on strengths in four key areas. Analytics How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment by Oliver Hauser, Michael Luca Seven rules for experimentalists.

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Correction: The Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review

October 30, 2015 Does Your Writing Make a Good Impression? People judge you by your writing. They decide how smart, creative, and trustworthy you are — all from what you’ve written. So be sure your writing makes a good impression on the reader. Here are some common mistakes that cast you in an unflattering light: Using lots of pairs or sets of threes. For example, avoid sentences like this: “The policies and practices of business and nonprofits can be expected to change and grow.” Inventing names or acronyms. Making up terms sounds pompous, not smart. Repeating words with no good reason. Writers seem inattentive when they have a lot of empty echoes in their documents. Using nonparallel bullet points. If three of four are complete sentences and one is only a phrase, that’s sloppy. Changing the order of items. If you refer to A, B, and C, don't discuss them in the order A, C, and B. Adapted from “Improve Your Writing to Improve Your Credibility,” by Barbara Wallraff.

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October 30, 2015 Chart of the Week: Global Differences in Company Ownership Advanced-economy firms – read, U.S. and European companies – are far more likely to be publicly-held compared to emerging market firms, according to research by the McKinsey Global Institute. In fact, companies based in countries like China and India are overwhelmingly family-owned. Why does this matter? Writing on HBR.org, Richard Dobbs, Tim Koller, and Sree Ramaswamy argue that a family- or government-owned structure allows companies to prioritize long-term investments over short term market gains. In many cases, this means mergers and acquisitions to grow quickly while also remaining nimble. It's just one of the reasons the authors warn that the era of remarkable profits for Western firms may be coming to a close. To view, download, and share charts and graphics like this one, visit our Visual Library (sign-in required). SOURCE: The Future and How to Survive It

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