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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Mark Hopkins : The best leadership tip I ever received came from a pastor’s sermon during a non-denominational service in Yosemite Valley Chapel. The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy.

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Innovating in a Time of Uncertainty and Challenge

Innovation Excellence

Add the movement toward virtual and contract manufacturing and globalized, interwoven supply chains—with both the benefits and risks they involve—and you begin to realize the breadth of changes already taking place. Except the market doesn’t yet exist and the future is still being defined. Our report explores that terrain.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

A contract manufacturing company that builds products for IT equipment makers, for example, had a dedicated team of speculative market analysts whose active trend monitoring led to a 15 percent return on investment. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets.

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Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan signals sweeping layoffs and fightback

HR Digest

The Intel leadership change, announced this week, marks the end of a turbulent interim period under co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, who stepped in after Pat Gelsingers exit. This is a bid to make Intel a contract manufacturer for other chipmakers, not just its own designs. Whats Next?

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. Companies that move especially quickly could pioneer the next stage of additive manufacturing.