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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. To be unaware of, or to discount changing environments would be a leadership mistake. Little more than a decade of web brilliance and we have an enterprise generating $38 billion in revenues.

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Are You Feeling Disconnected As a Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. Many were feeling disconnected, discounted and undervalued. The talk of driving collaboration and innovation was just that – talk. Where they will break down silos and drive greater innovation, collaboration, and performance. They felt rudderless.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The new economy doesn’t operate that way. But they cannot be permitted to lead; make them play catch-up by continuing to strategically innovate. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. But their leaders are farsighted.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. The truth is that while these things matter they discount the things we can control. A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. Make your goal specific.

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July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Steve DiGioia contributed Please Don’t Discount the Inexperienced. they can see the flaws of their operation, but often their focus is so exclusive to results and productivity and performance that the way people treat each other doesn’t appear on their radar screens at all. icting harm on others or yourself.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

UK grocery giant Tesco predicts which discounts will be redeemed in order to target over 100 million personalized coupons annually at cash registers across 13 countries. Predictions drive how organizations treat and serve an individual, across the operations that define a functional society. over previous methods.