Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you.

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Long-term Leadership Travel Executive Coaching 160

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Communication and clarity are the currencies of effective leadership.

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Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. Also 2012 will see some CSR issues that became part of the mainstream conversation in 2011 escalate in interest.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). The trend is clear globally as well.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% More extended global supply chains also increase these counterparty risks. of all successions at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies. From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase.

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Ethics CEO Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

China is already the world’s fiercest battleground for global brands and more local companies are joining the fray. One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. Go for Broke. 2 in the market.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9