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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? To continue to have our product priced competitively so we can increase sales, we need to reduce our costs. To do that, we are going to identify any work effort that doesn’t make our product better and eliminate it.”

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. 2017 Campaign Chair United Way of Southwestern Indiana.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business Review

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. They need management approval for even the smallest things, such as accepting a return or making a price change. Career paths. Take-home pay.

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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business Review

Career advancement in mature companies usually demands avoiding conspicuous failures, while entrepreneurs must fail repeatedly to get ahead. As a community, FirstBuild pursues open source innovation, in contrast with the proprietary IP pursued by GE Appliances and other large consumer product companies. Should they?

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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business Review

Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Scouting options have low technical but high market uncertainty, in which the major task is finding product/market fit to extend the reach of an existing capability.

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Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right

Harvard Business Review

As Tasha Eurich writes in her 2017 book, Insight , about 95% of us think we have strong self-awareness, but only about 10% to 15% of us actually possess it. And, in fact, the more power we have, and the higher we ascend in our careers, the less self-aware we become. .” Research supports Franklin’s assertion.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.