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The Essence of Strategy (Part 2) | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Here’s how the Fortis B2B team define themselves: Natural gas is our business. Leadership.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. A study by McKinsey specific to the business-to-business (B2B) area suggests that businesses that optimize QTC for end-to-end accountability significantly outperform peers that don’t. They result in information hoarding and lack of communication.

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Confidence, Respect, Trust and Professionalism #cipd12

Rapid BI

Change required for HR, Recruitment and people leadership. For those of us in b2b and thing this analogy is irrelevant – think again. These trends or themes include Confidence, Respect, Trust and by implication, Professionalism. If we treat them poorly this time, they may not buy for us for life.

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