Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. Maybe we need to have the courage to live our truth regardless of what the outcome is, but when it comes to threatening one’s livelihood, the situation requires more innovative measures, as you did.

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11