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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Most likely you know plenty of them, since strategy tourists – those individuals who lack the motivation, skills and knowledge to turn a strategy into performance – can be found in abundance in most organizations. And an organization needs more heroes and fewer tourists, won’t you agree? I’m sure you also know some.

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Let’s Do Less Dead-End Work

Harvard Business Review

We need someone to organize the off-site event — can you do that? Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Attentive to professional diversity and inclusion, we continue to collaborate among professional bodies, chambers of commerce, public sector, industries and higher education institutions on joint events of complementary relevance and membership benefits in leadership and management.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Consider Porter's value chain. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response.

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What Tops Your 2011 Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

That reflects the fact that, in a year that's been hard on people in organizations, we checked in first with some of the greats in that field. We found Ed Schein, for example, still working hard in his "emeritus" days, and hoping to discover keys to getting increasingly diverse teams to click fast and work as one in high-pressure conditions.

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Leadership and The Attitude Contagion | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Be Generous Most businesses and organizations provide service in some form or another. And, even within organizations, everyone serves someone. In your organization what values do you see at play? Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. It seems simple enough doesn’t it?

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.