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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

In our recent book, “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we examined the repercussions of the convergence of major forces like globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.

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If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

Harvard Business Review

The company's job is to define the product, and the buyers' is to consume it. For example, Google reveals its topline direction to everyone in the company and asks that all employees figure out how their work fits into the company's strategy. The idea of a company creating and buyers consuming is dated.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Most large companies struggle to get the most out of the vast amounts of data they’ve collected. That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”.