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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

Risk-averse approach The researchers analyzed financial data from over 200 companies that were included in the Forbes 500 list between 2014 and 2017. In addition to measuring integrity, the researchers also analyzed shareholder letters for keywords that are highly correlated with innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking.

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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

We need to continue learning long after we’ve tossed our caps into the air and received our diplomas, especially in a world where the speed of innovation has us adopting new technologies, standards, and best practices at breakneck speeds. million students were enrolled in at least one distance learning course in fall 2014 – up 3.9

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Branding vs. Marketing

Strategy Driven

Many believe that a brand is a function of marketing. Marketers and marketing departments love ‘branding campaigns’ or ‘brand-building programs,’ because they are sexier and more exciting than their less attractive cousin, the product campaign. But a brand is much more than a component of marketing.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. By adding digital without compromising the quality of the 160-year-old brand, Burberry regained market superiority in the new retail economy. Embrace disruption.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

He would hire people who were already skilled and give them the authority and responsibility to take ownership of tasks they could execute with more expertise than he could. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, where he teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. Don’t try to do everything.

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Leadership Infrastructure – A Prerequisite To Mightiness

Tanveer Naseer

Unfortunately, business schools don’t teach classes in building leadership infrastructure, and it is not a natural skill for most executives. Planning and governance processes that ensure leaders of the company stay on track, executing a thoughtful strategy. They made great products and brought them to market. That’s wrong.