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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. To compete effectively, speed, innovation and intense customer focus are of essence. This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”.

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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

Endurance in the business of custom learning development is a key indicator that a provider is agile, innovative, responsive and able to consistently exceed client expectations. Additionally, effective partners don’t see sustainment as an “add-on” but as an essential element of learning and behavior change.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# I Think Not.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Build an open innovation platform. Hire seasoned innovators. One clear problem innovation can solve is creating new growth.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Their reasoning: Five years from now, successful companies will increasingly employ innovative business models that no one currently thinks are feasible.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market.

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