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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Product Development Superiority Apple’s expertise in creating user-friendly, technologically advanced, and aesthetically pleasing products like the iPhone is unparalleled. Ordinary products languish.

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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Product Development Superiority Apple’s expertise in creating user-friendly, technologically advanced, and aesthetically pleasing products like the iPhone is unparalleled. Ordinary products languish.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” link] mikemyatt Leave it to Michael McKinney to get right at the heart of the issue by addressing root-level motivation – "it benefits the labeler more than the label-ee." Thanks for sharing the amazing quote Ken.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. He added that he wanted leaders with not just stellar academic records but also imagination, dynamism and, especially, character and motivation.

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

How do you keep the people at PMI motivated for change? Our journey to transform our business from a traditional cigarette manufacturer to a science and technology-driven company is one of the most dramatic pivots taken by a major multinational company in recent history, so by definition, it impacts our people deeply.

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A Telling Victory for Online Polling (and Tech Adoption)

Harvard Business Review

Like YouTube in 2006 and Facebook in 2008 , 2012 will go down as the year that online polling joined telephone polling as part of our electoral process. This victory for online technology wasn't a foregone conclusion. Benchmarking against reality. Differentiating among tech solutions.