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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Compliance professionals work in every kind of business – from health care companies challenged by legislation to food companies under a regulator’s watchful eye to airlines obliged to track anti-terrorism data. At the level of a national economy, however, how much should we protest this particular line of labor dislocation?

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation. ” This attractive, apocryphal quote breaks down upon inspection. Who takes the hit?

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

Harvard Business Review

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly

Harvard Business Review

It’s the best way yet invented to focus the organization’s capital, human, and time resources toward the goals of the business. In this case, management could easily misapply resources. Or suppose the lens was a mirror looking only at past ways to deploy resources. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.