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15 Key Lessons On Managing Change

QAspire

Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. By Tanmay , September 29, 2010 @ 9:20 am @Jay - Thanks for sharing that quote, but my thinking is that if situation is good/bad, it won’t change on its own unless we do something about it ourselves. Hope that clarifies.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Isn’t it better to hasten Joseph Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction and move capital and employment from inefficient dinosaurs to more vibrant and agile upstarts? In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe. I give them three reasons. First, timing matters.

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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. It arguably started with BP.

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How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

” In Emotional Agility , consultants Susan David and Christina Congleton, focus on one aspect of self-regulation, detailing a process for recognizing and rechanneling your negative emotions, an idea echoed in Kellogg school professor Tanya Menon and U.