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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2015

Tanveer Naseer

In my penultimate article from 2015, I made the point that in answering the question “ where do we go from here? ”, we have to look back on the journey we’ve taken and what lessons and insights we’ve learned that can help us as we move forward.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2014

Tanveer Naseer

Share on Twitter ] “In several cases, I noted how problems arose not simply because team members disagreed on a particular point or issue, but because they were operating from different perspectives of what they should be expected to do, and what they saw as being their team mates’ responsibility to address.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Setting goals that are too low. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Failing to emphasize training.

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How Companies Can Champion Sustainable Development

Harvard Business Review

I have previously made the case that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the potential to provide, for the first time, a framework for mobilizing companies to invest in sustainable development in an ongoing and scalable way, while also pursuing their own business interests. Some goals may be too broad or too distant.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S. Successful coalition-building combines a common goal with something for everybody. It takes more than a village to raise an infrastructure project. infrastructure problems.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. But they also seemed genuinely open to hearing what we had to say.

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