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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

” A good first step is to make managers and recruiters aware of the need for class diversity in the first place so that any talent-related decisions are made with this in mind. However, in contrast to IT, engineering, health, and education, we find more established-elite CEOs in management consultancies.”

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How Estonia Can Inspire a Digital Post-Brexit Britain

The Horizons Tracker

The Estonian model for digital transformation could help the UK recover from the potential economic and political fallout following their exit from the European Union. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” How could we deploy these competencies in completely new ways or new contexts to expand the boundaries of our business model? This is quite understandable. Not very likely. This is the essential point.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. The clock is ticking, change is accelerating, and a disruptive technology or business model is just around the corner.

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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. But why not?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.