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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Millennials matured during the era of super-celebrities and reality television. The distinction of famous vs. infamous has been blurred, and recognition for recognition sake is now the norm.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? I have witnessed disruption occur at every level of corporate maturation and I believe it's important to note that disruption isn't necessarily reserved for the privileged or mature entity.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Most conference evaluation forms are lightweight and ask for surface rankings.rather than for nuggets of knowledge learned. What is their maturity level? That It's Supposed to Be Popular. merely begins.

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What If You Don't Want to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business Review

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. Management titles allow us to mark our growth, and our maturity.

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Breaking Down Data Silos

Harvard Business Review

Second, data confers insight and advantage. Vendors have also worked hard to create entire job functions and career paths centered around their software. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable. Using data costs money.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. And no sector is complete without its own conference. Risk-taking, they say, must be rewarded, even when it does not succeed. The startup sector has its own growing newspaper (online, of course): Xconomy.