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Management Innovations Only Work When No One Else Is Doing Them

The Horizons Tracker

“When you have a secret sauce and nobody else knows about it, you have a competitive advantage. By 2002 it was catching on and three teams had adopted it, but by 2013, a whopping 75% had done so. Nonetheless, new research from the Rotman School of Management provides empirical evidence of this phenomenon.

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How Lafayette, an “Outsider,” Won the Allegiance of His Team

Michael Lee Stallard

For the Marquis de Lafayette’s extraordinary commitment to America’s cause, America passed a law on January 23, 2002, posthumously bestowing him with honorary citizenship. Adapted from Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work. Read free sample chapters here.

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Successful People in the United States of America

Coaching Tip

Hispanic population, Cuban Americans in 2002 accounted for 5 out of 10 wealthiest Hispanics in the United States and today are 2.5 High Performance Teams; A Competitive Advantage. By 1990, the percentage of U.S.-born born Cuban Americans with household incomes over $50,000 was double that of Anglo-Americans. Related articles.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders. to take advantage of America's talented leaders. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Furthermore, 21% of working Americans received at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition.

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StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 1 – Standing Out Among Professional Peers, part 1 of 3

Strategy Driven

A member of the Society of Human Resource Management, she received a leadership award in 2002 from the Midwest College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.