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Coca-Cola Enterprises is a producer, distributor, and marketer of Coca-Cola products, with revenues in excess of $22 billion and over 72,000 employees around the world. To help facilitate company communication, the company sought a brand-centric, global portal to allow employees to engage with the site and share multimedia information with each other on a worldwide basis.

On the surface, shale gas extraction marks one of the most influential and disruptive technologies shaping the energy and utilities industries. But drill deeper (in a horizontal direction, to be sure), and it’s clear that shale gas marks only one of many disruptive forces complicating a major internal challenge these companies confront: planning, planning, planning.

Companies must undertake a fundamental change in the way they create, manage and generate revenue, says Phil Fernandez in his new book .

Authors Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi sure know their target audience. For a book written about taking personal responsibility to make yourself better, the three authors throw in a “42 Rules…” subhead.

It’s time for CEOs to take back strategy, says Harvard Business School professor Cynthia Montgomery in .

Managers, like just about everyone else, are busy. But when Brian Souza points out that most managers only spend four hours per employee, per year, discussing their team’s performance, it’s a jarring observation.