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ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual

The Horizons Tracker

This is important, as many multinationals utilize local partners to manage their rela­tionship with the host government, built goodwill with local people, and provide training and other benefits. For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. Global reach.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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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. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Why Large Companies Struggle With Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.