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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

Advances in technology have allowed countless individuals to pursue interests that extend beyond the standard classroom, on their own time, and often for little to no cost. Recently I’ve been learning how to handcraft leather goods and have taken workshops on data visualization. percent from the previous fall.”. It’s all important.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration.

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Macro Maps Help You Align Processes and Strategy

Strategy Driven

But after a number of processes are selected with this ‘whoever is interested’ approach, leaders and process Improvement practitioners see that it would make sense to select processes that are underperforming, would provide increases in market share and revenue, or would directly support key strategic initiatives.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business Review

But none articulates the workforce of the future as well as the observation of HR executives in a series of recent workshops we’ve led in in Hong Kong, Western Europe, and Silicon Valley. In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then.