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Say “Hi” and “Bye”

Michael Lee Stallard

This year’s conference includes Karen Katz, President and CEO of Nieman Marcus, Maxine Clark, Founder of Build-a-Bear Workshop, Duncan Mac Naughtan, EVP, Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer for Wal-Mart U.S. The Retailing Summit is a premiere event for senior leaders in retail.

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The Right Side of History: Musings from Workhuman

Surviving Leadership

Disclosure: I am compensated for attending Workhuman and sharing my thoughts and commentary on the conference. No one at Workhuman directs what I am supposed to write or how I cover the conference – I am simply invited to share my impressions of the experience. . How was the conference, Mary?! . Enough about the backstory.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. That's why Gary Hamel, management thinker and author, envisioned the MIX as a collaborative platform to both surface bold ideas and inspiring stories and to make progress on a set of make-or-break challenges. Explore the fringe.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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How CIOs Can Change the Game

Harvard Business Review

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT.

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