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Subject: The Best of the November Issue
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The Best of the November Issue
What's causing a stir in this month's HBR
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What Business Can Learn from Organized Crime
by Marc Goodman
Colombian drug cartels have been technologically advanced since the days of Miami Vice, of course. But today's organized criminals-from the Russian Business Network to South America's Superzonda-are also using cutting-edge supply chain management techniques, incentives, and adaptive strategies that business could put to more honest ends.
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SPOTLIGHT
What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud
by Andrew McAfee
Talk about a piece you can't afford to miss: What's in the cloud? What can it do for my company? What's not really ready yet? What happens if my competitors read this before I do? Here, in one comprehensive, jargon-free package are the facts you need to know to make strategic sense of this IT evolution.
How Great Companies Think Differently
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
IBM sends future leaders through its own Peace Corp-like Social Services Corp. Employees of P&G West Africa track the performance metric, "How many people's lives have I touched this year?" Focusing on social needs has led Cemex to such lucrative innovations as salt-water resistant and antibacterial concrete. In example after inspiring example, Kanter makes tangible the connection between social purpose and long-term financial strength.
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VIDEO: Fire, Snowball, Mask, Movie: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change
A three-minute, animated, highly quotable discussion of the uses and abuses of change metaphors. Where did that burning-platform metaphor come from, again?
SLIDESHOW: The Good Company: Then and Now
"Good" is a moving target, as you can see from this chronicle of what it has meant, down the decades, to be a good company.
SLIDESHOW: Frank Gehry Talks About His Work
America's most celebrated architect on the building some thought couldn't be built, staying on budget, and the work he regrets.
SLIDESHOW: Strategic Humor
Take a break and check out these submissions for this month's caption contest. Who'd have thought this subject would be so inspirational?
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