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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership.

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When the Distancing Ends, How Far Away Will You Be?

Decker Communication

Business plans that were ahead of schedule in mid-January ground to a halt as the virus spread, borders closed, and social distancing moved from an awkward new phrase to a mantra of daily life. Where are the innovations (and innovators) that you should double-down on to change the game?

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The Secret to Success: It’s Not a Secret

Strategy Driven

Visualize your goals and then craft a plan for achieving them. During my career as a successful commodities broker, I learned a key lesson about success: self-management is more important than talent. Plans steps to achieve them. Financial: planning for the present and the future. The reality is there is no secret.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

It was in June of 1764 that a merchant named Peter Hasenclever landed in New York with plans to build a network of factories unlike any the world had seen. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. The property included several ancient mines and ironworks.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Or is he too gutless to follow through with his plans?

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

Each brand’s strategic business plans now include a LIFE plan, with actions and targets laid out for the next five years. Managing Carbon and Energy. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.