Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2020

Artists are the ideal business to look to when searching for new, innovative ways to expand your business and grow an audience. One of the biggest lessons that businesses can learn from artists like Dertee is that to truly innovate and grow one must pursue their art again and again. Reinvention and Creation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

But recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation (PDF) shows that an inherently diverse workforce can be a potent source of innovation, as diverse individuals are better attuned to the unmet needs of consumers or clients like themselves. What does it take to consistently drive growth and innovation? Be more inclusive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Of these, the last indicator is perhaps the most likely to accurately capture a company’s short-termism.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Who declared 7 or 10 or 15 percent growth in earnings a sacrosanct pursuit, above all other corporate goals — like the innovation that leads to novel solutions that address customer needs? Nobody writes a paean to the search for 9 percent EPS growth. Moreover, pure growth targets are even wackier right now.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion. Diversity Managing yourself'

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EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Companies like Unilever are on an open innovation drive, while GSK and Novartis are focusing on access to medicines in poorer markets. Business would change the rules of the game.

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