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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Where are we? So they don’t.

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Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

Not only is this operational approach costly, but outsourcing activities face many challenges such as communication barriers, untimeliness, and data errors. Instead of contracting multiple external resources, organizations employ one automation tool to perform an unlimited number activities. Consider leaving a comment!

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The 7 Steps to Sales Force Transformation

Strategy Driven

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.