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Future of Work: Four Shifts Leaders Must Focus on

QAspire

Talking about the impending shifts like automation, robotics, disruptions and uncertainties in our world of work is almost clichéd. In this context, I read an excellent post by Kenneth Mikkelsen titled “ Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes ” at Drucker Forum blog. Peter Drucker understood that better than most people.

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Never Stop Learning

Leading Blog

Once we understand the basics, we can deviate productively to innovate and learn. ” Given that most tasks that require our attention involve uncertainty, it is inevitable that we will sometimes make the wrong choice…. Staats adds, “Success, even in a novel situation such as dance, depends on understanding the building blocks.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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Maybe Your Team Doesn’t Need to Be More Creative

Harvard Business Review

Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. Indeed, few creative ideas ever become innovative products or services. And yet too many managers see a lack of innovation in their companies and lament their teams’ “lack of creativity.” HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

For decades, the success of a business depended on three key pillars: Innovative Ideas + Cheaper/Faster/Better Execution + Powerful Leadership. As a result, the winning formula has become: Innovative Ideas + Delivering Unique Experiences + Enabling Leadership. The Leadership Trap. Change management Leadership'

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

For decades, the success of a business depended on three key pillars: Innovative Ideas + Cheaper/Faster/Better Execution + Powerful Leadership. As a result, the winning formula has become: Innovative Ideas + Delivering Unique Experiences + Enabling Leadership. The Leadership Trap. Change management Leadership'

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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