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Two thought-provoking perspectives on the “crisis of capitalism”

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Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine?

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. To the average user, search engines feel interchangeable.

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Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust

Harvard Business Review

While conducting research on recent dramatic cases of strategic failure in different industries, involving vastly different business models and strategies, we discovered a common pattern: What started as small gaps in execution spiraled into business failures when initial strategies were not altered based on new information provided by experience.

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Twenty–30% of the working age population do some form of independent work, according to McKinsey’s Global Institute , and that share is growing rapidly. Another cause of the decline in jobs is that our engine of job growth has stalled. Young businesses, not small businesses, as is widely believed, create the most new jobs.

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