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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. Ramanathan, we discovered, is much more than the traditional operations executive. went to work.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

But winning CEOs demand analytics from their sales organization (much as they do from operations or strategy) to help understand everything from the effectiveness of sales campaigns to opportunity analysis to performance reviews. CEOs generally don't want changes to how their sales force operates for fear of killing the golden goose.

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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. The Intel semiconductor business, once a juggernaut, has been outpaced in AI chips and manufacturing prowess. Whats Next?

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

Harvard Business Review

Organizations will gradually revamp their operations to take advantage of its flexibility and versatility well beyond the factory floor. Once factories develop the software to coordinate and optimize these multi-industry operations, we’ll see the emergence of “pan-industrial” corporations.