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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

Leading Blog

Individuals or partners develop a plan and iterate as new information arises. Models are developed, scrutinized, and refined. Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. Develop living plans that are regularly updated. Always be thinking about options.

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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. The advent of technology that enables remote work combined with the ever-increasing rate of employee turnover in many industries has led to a transformation in the very fabric of organizational culture. This is crucial.

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We’ve Coached Over 1 Million Supervisors … Here’s What We Learned

Leading Blog

An Eye-Opening Revelation. That’s been one of the most eye-opening revelations for many of the supervisors we’ve worked with over the past few decades. After conducting a few million DILOs (Day in the Life of) across 30,000 organizational operations assessments, we found one thing in common. Develop a people rhythm.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Leadership isn't easy.

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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. 1: Open adjacent product areas: For the people across the 147 countries around the world who learned about colors and the alphabet from Sesame Street, there's one more lesson that the beloved TV program can offer. It created a new one.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting. In his latest book, Built to Innovate , he chronicles the Tech Warrior Enterprise event run each year by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms. Indeed, many SMEs pioneer new technologies, products, and services. While there are many businesses like this, it would be a mistake to assume SMEs are a homogenous group.