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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? With expertise in global sales, digital transformation, process improvement, and worldwide client management, Janet has the background and the vision to guide Freeman into a new future. billion and global new business doubled.

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April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Liz writes: “ Do you find yourself reserving your input in meetings until after your team has shared or brainstormed? Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided How to Create a Monthly Finance Routine. Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Speak and Lead Proactively.

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Women on Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Strategy Driven

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. These are well worth participating in and supporting. About the Author.

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. What do you do?

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New Books from HBR Press for March

Harvard Business Review

Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process. What does it mean to be a global worker and a true "citizen of the world" today? Global Dexterity will help you reach across cultures — and succeed in today's global business environment. By Andrew Molinsky.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is another group pursuing a modern-day form of barn-raising.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. But the Council was not the typical think tank for brainstorming ideas. It’s not just products.