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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Upcoming Free Webinar

LDRLB

Leading Disruptive Innovation. When: July 26, 2012. Description: Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the norm. Many leaders, however, are not formally prepared for the fortitude required to lead through the deep uncertainty that characterizes periods of disruptive change. About Soren.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) started testing individual problem solving skills in 2012 and added collaborative problem solving skills in the 2015 assessments.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. It is very difficult to copy when you start undoing the cultural things.

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33 HBR Blog Posts You Should Read Before 2013

Harvard Business Review

HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Leadership's Full Measure. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

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Millennials Are Entering a Changed Workplace. Not.

Harvard Business Review

ethnically Asian college graduates’ unemployment rate in 2012 was 11.9%, higher than blacks’, whites’, or Hispanics’. Andrea Ovans Unsolid Ground Lessons from a Drowning Nation Washington Post On Leadership Executives in struggling industries sometimes find themselves in the unenviable position of having to plan for the end of a company.