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Leaders need to Lead

Great Leadership By Dan

It begins with a clear articulation of a unit’s long term strategic objectives—and the development of a disciplined strategy to achieve those objectives. He worked on the Mercury and Gemini space programs before moving to Cummins Engines where he helped develop the small diesel engines now used in pickup trucks.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Software development, operations, and support have to be provided for both offerings, and because they differ from one another considerably, economies of scale cannot be reached in the way possible with just one business model.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Uncover the core beliefs that motivate these behaviors. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house. We need to be more like Oracle. We need to be more like Microsoft.”

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. Adaptability.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., What changed? New category creation is not easy.