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2020 Hindsight: Learning for Tomorrow

Lead Change Blog

So many terms come to mind to describe 2020: Unexpected. As businesses plan for 2021, it’s a perfect time to practice 2020 Hindsight – reviewing observations from this year for insights and learnings to leverage in the coming 12 months. How has the current environment changed demand from your core customer base?

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. However, compassion becomes especially critical during a crisis.” 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S. McKinsey & Company.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. A different picture.

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Protect Your Supply Chain During a Pandemic by Using Automation

Strategy Driven

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. These were followed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the U.S.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. In the case of strategic acquisitions, currency depreciation tells only half of the story.

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. annual growth, China would cross the $10,000 per capita threshhold in 2015, and $15,000 in 2020. Basically, it''s due. Not that stuff couldn''t go wrong along the way.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

And at Danone, Emmanuel Faber, an insider for 17 years, won the CEO job, in 2014, because he was one of the architects of the firm’s 2020 vision to transform from a food and beverage conglomerate into a family health and medical nutrition company that emphasized sustainable agriculture.