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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

O VER THE PAST FEW DECADES, we’ve seen several examples of “brand renegades.” Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. Here are some additional ways that we elevated our brand above the fray.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. I NNOVATION has always been important. New technology will change the way we work.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture. They brand themselves and the workplace. How do you know?

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Creating Demand-Led Innovation In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

The HIMSS healthcare event is branded as the place to learn what the future of healthcare might have in store. All of these things take time, energy, and money. Just as politics is often referred to as the “art of the possible”, so too to a large extent is innovation in healthcare. Supporting change.

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How to Stop Being Perceived as Negative at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re talking to an “idea person”, they want to explore and build on ideas, not have their creativity and energy crushed before their ideas can breathe. Your “get things done” crowd, the roadblocks are frustrating—they want to see action. Roadblocks…crushed…harsh…disrespectful. What do all these words have in common?

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

04:22) Cultivating a Thriving Workplace : Discover the secret to transforming stress into positive energy and the quest for the right fit in the workplace, emphasizing the importance of a culture that aligns with personal working styles for productivity, satisfaction, and employee motivation. (07:26)