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What’s The Truth About Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

Namely, that in addition to our responsibility to protect those we lead to do the work they’re meant to do, we also need to have a keen self-awareness regarding how much truth there is in our leadership.

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers?

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. Many of the startups now disrupting major industries like hospitality or media had four or five years to figure out what opportunity was actually worth pursuing, and build a working mechanism for attracting customers.

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Should Your CIO Be Chief Digital Officer?

Harvard Business Review

But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways. Can she talk the language of social media or mobile or analytics, and can she help you understand?

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Entrepreneur Jake Thompson Shares His Story, Advice, And What's In Store For CED In 2015

Eric Jacobson

I am truly humbled by the emails, Instagram/Facebook posts, and calls our team receives from people who were touched or inspired by a social media post or shirt we produced. Question : How has social media made it easier for you to be successful at CED? Question : What''s the most challenging thing about being an entrepreneur?

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. We stopped judging our consumers and ourselves about our media habits. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. There are two ways to set revenue targets.