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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

Take lessons from the past to constructively plan for the future. Have the confidence to innovate, think, and experiment. Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. Talk with debtors, creditors, suppliers, and the bank. Negotiate flexible terms. Look for hidden assets that you can repurpose.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. The legacy firm continues to innovate and form key partnerships to sustain the health of the marketplace. Care about more than profits.

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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. There are many tasks involved in running a successful business. You have to understand your customer so you can provide a product people want.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors. It has also upgraded the skills of more than 1,000 incumbent workers in the health care, hospitality, property services, automotive services, and green industries.

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Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood

Harvard Business Review

Leadership is changing — fast. In other words, if people can’t constructively enhance and advance the CEO’s essential message inside the enterprise and out, then something is profoundly wrong with either the people, the message, or the CEO. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Japan, Libya, and Why Leaders Should be Paranoid

Harvard Business Review

Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. In addition to construction jobs, the technology side of infrastructure offers jobs of the future. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented.