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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. ” Will Rogers. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration.

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Keeping Your Strategy Meetings Focused on the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Roger Martin has proposed that the overweening pursuit of shareholder value be upgraded to the pursuit of human value.

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