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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The advent of technology that enables remote work combined with the ever-increasing rate of employee turnover in many industries has led to a transformation in the very fabric of organizational culture. I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Years ago, we engaged with a CEO in the mattress industry who wanted to know how he could create real brand distinction and drive more retail traffic in such a highly commoditized category. In an industry where mattresses are always on sale, we knew the brand had to do something to disrupt the market.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Imagine representing the trucking industry as an attorney without knowing the difference between a truck tractor and a flatbed. The same applies in every sector and industry. As an attorney, I learned long ago to master the specialized lingo of my clients. You’d lose the client’s trust instantly.

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APRIL 12, 2024

and finally Deepest, Darkest Secrets (To find these secrets you’ll need to wander outside your industry and consider broader trends in human behavior, or how an idea can be borrowed from one field and placed into a new context.). Follow humans around to understand why they do what they do.

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JULY 1, 2020

Lessons from the Titans : What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success br Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer. Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

F OR YEARS I was taught that growing the business in an industry with strong competition was mostly a zero-sum game. 3: Grow the whole market using digital capabilities: Digital disrupters affect their industries in complicated ways. However, the overall profitability of the hotel industry went down 3.7%

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The industry directly employs more than 11 million people with varying capabilities around the world. In the U.S.,

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Important, too, is to always be looking for the undercurrents in your industry. The authors spend a good deal of time addressing key components of crisis management: building a team, communication, gathering intelligence, creativity in working with what you have to work with, mental health, and relationships. Where are you headed?

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MARCH 13, 2023

And contractors in the construction industry have long used an extensive form of outsourcing. The Smart Car was an interesting example of this in the automobile industry, resulting from a joint venture of Mercedes and Swatch. Some outsourcing has been around for a long time. Often, both.

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JULY 1, 2023

The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. The TV industry has felt the strain of these recurring events like all of us. Middle manager." Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully. Recessions. Natural disasters.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia. She's worked as a Human Resources and Training Director in the cold storage, robotics, and construction industries and enjoys visiting conferences as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

One simple idea, connecting vending machines to the internet, had the potential to affect multiple industries. One action affects multiple value chains across multiple, high- and low-tech industries alike. This type of interconnected ecosystem makes today’s economy so unique. All of this requires thinking many steps ahead.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Leadership is getting harder as the speed of disruption across all industries accelerates. Horsager offers a road map for how to become the most trusted expert in your industry. He has served on many boards and is a sought-after mentor for CEOs of global companies. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. But disruption, for all its power, is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The news is not in any simple way a ‘mirror’ on the world; it is a conduit for ideas and symbols, an industrial product that promotes packages of ideas and ideologies, and serves, consequently, as social ballast, though at times also a harbinger of social change. The news is a cognitive warp.”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

No question the biotech industry is experiencing significant growth. If you follow these approaches all the time, you will be as prepared as you possibly can be when it comes to confronting life’s inevitable unexpected events. The opportunities for bioentrepreneurs can be more exciting and impactful than ever in today's accelerated market.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In The Bold Ones , you'll discover it's more about being bold than disruptive: being simultaneously confident enough to challenge industries, yet practical enough to recreate them. Disruption for disruption's sake isn't a smart strategy when you're seeking ways to accelerate your career and become truly indispensable.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Supply workers with a framework of fundamental data and information for analysis in areas such as organizational strategy, industry trends and events, and potential revenue opportunities. Communicate all relevant information to employees, partners, and other stakeholders on a regular, if not real-time, basis. Have a digital nervous system.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

Distinct from creativity and innovation, imagination extends beyond programs of innovation: “imagination is not just for inventing new products and services, but for fundamentally rethinking the mental model on which a company is based, even rethinking an entire industry or envisaging new industries.”.

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MARCH 4, 2024

That year, he championed Microsoft’s first $1 billion investment into OpenAI, the company that would shake the industry with its release of ChatGPT. The company wouldn’t just be a leader in cloud, but also in AI. In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Argonon fared better during the pandemic than most of the other organizations in their industry using this method. James Burstsall, the CEO of Argonon, an independent production group, offers what he calls The Flexible Method. It is a way through the next crisis you will face.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate-Positive Offices In the corporate real estate industry, Duffy argued that the root cause of climate abuse by offices is the office supply chain and its incentives. C above pre-industrial levels. An emerging “officeverse” is shaping new models in an ever-changing mix of work, place, and time options for living and working.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It was the most efficient way to build the momentum of the Industrial Revolution. Arising from the thinking-doing playbook we have followed since the Industrial Revolution has been an imbalance in the rhythm between doing and thinking says Marquet. The Industrial Age mindset is to continue—to keep on producing—nothing is ever complete.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Since founding Co-Creation Partners in 2010, he has designed and led programs and workshops for private, public, and social-sector clients across multiple industries, including financial services, basic materials, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

She climbed the corporate ladder from the very bottom and overcame countless obstacles to reach the top of the cruise industry. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “. a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” — George R.R.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

This was the case with GE Digital, a new subsidiary created to provide software and Industrial Internet of Things services to industrial companies. It’s always a challenge to help the naysayers within your own ranks, let alone investors and pundits understand the value of what needs to be done.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

I’m blessed with the same thing that John Ford and Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock were blessed with, a mini-industry very similar to the one from the golden era of Hollywood, where it was the same people making movies with you each and every time. My job was constantly to keep a movie family going.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Every industry is different, and every company is unique, so there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for addressing the culture dilemma. . • Passion projects: They now allow employees to take outside employment or to start their own businesses on top of their commitments to Fujitsu.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

How did Shaich succeed repeatedly in such a notoriously tough industry? Know What Matters : Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations by Ron Shaich Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread, is a business visionary who has been part of building three iconic restaurant brands: Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread, and now Cava.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Some of the lessons include: The sad reality, however, is that pandering to clients’ wants rather than identifying and meeting clients’ needs is one of the most pervasive Agents of Stupidity in our industry. The risk of not sending an ad out into the world is never directly felt.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Begin by developing your leadership core, which encompasses four general areas: Technical Skills: Knowledge about your domain, your business (including financial), and your industry. Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration, conflict management, diversity and inclusion, and teaming.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Chris Anderson describes it this way in Makers: The New Industrial Revolution : "The Web allows people to show what they can do, regardless of their education and credentials. The labor markets are changing. With the Internet proximity is not an issue. What we will see is simply more.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

As talked about in this Business Insider article , these trends have caused panic among leaders in all industries, who are now looking to combat these “new” issues, and consultants are right there with them, offering all sorts of “solutions.”

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry. With this cybersecurity background, I was recruited to run another security company that had developed a clever computer card implementation of the emerging virtual private networking standard.

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APRIL 12, 2020

Girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort, and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their doors. People are ugly not in their face but in their thoughts.

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MARCH 6, 2020

In our industry, for example, our lumberyard competitors sell essentially the same assortment of building materials that we do. W HAT differentiates companies? It’s generally not products, services, facilities, or equipment. Across New England, our white pine sawmill competitors make products that are very similar to our own.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Identify the potential inflection points in your industry and focus on the timeframe when they are likely to occur. The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Develop Your Vision.

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