The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. State of the Stagnation Address from a Learning-Impaired Leader Now, here I was five years later, watching the CEO deliver a presentation to his company’s managers and head office support people.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. Netflix, for example, claims to have saved more than $1 billion annually using machine learning. Organizations can do more with less. They are now working smarter, not harder. Don’t let restraints, resources, and funding hold you back.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. This was a precarious time. The post-9/11 environment demanded it.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Technology is making some of that effort easier. The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.

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