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

Strategy Driven

The first step was to manage our inventory. Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Before Freeman, Janet served as CEO of Marsh ClearSight, a global leader in risk, safety, and claims management software. 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? Ken shares: “ The “rocks in a jar” approach to time management is a good one, but they left a lot of things out that would help us be even more effective at managing our time; here are 11 of them.

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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. That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. 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? But managing and communicating with people from other cultures is an essential skill today. By Andrew Molinsky. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation.

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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.

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Can a Volunteer-Based Company Grow?

Harvard Business Review

Lena Klug, the CEO, was proud of the company’s global reach. As important as the volunteers were to BrainGame, they were an opinionated group­ and weren’t always easy to manage. And our biggest hits, Bot Force and Living Colony, both came from in-house brainstorming and development,” she said. Everyone laughed.