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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Recently, one of our clients began their corporate change initiative with a simple but very profound statement: “Trust is the foundation of speed and innovation.” Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process. I could not agree more.

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

That's why a business leader is accountable first to customers, because they hold all the cards, and that's why when they pursue a business opportunity, they place investment in talent first, product innovation second, and business model third. He publishes the business blog CorporateIntel.us

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

It’s the human element—the connection and bond people feel when love is expressed and love is received or returned—that makes it appealing and repeatable in warzones throughout the world in battles throughout history. As such, 75% of Americans seek the opportunity for service opportunities in other ways.

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To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations

Harvard Business Review

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. If communities of origin and growth are bonded by perceptions of sameness, communities of aspiration are held together by the differences between their members.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

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