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Great Leaders Know Core Business Model Vision

Great Leadership By Dan

What made them such great leaders was not just one aspect of their management style or their respective innovations. For a great enterprise vision to be realized one must have more than just a vision of an innovation or perceivable future. Leaders must have a workable product or service and a sustainable operation.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. How it’s always been done” was never our standard.

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How Entrepreneurship Can Thrive In Small Communities

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, a few years ago, entrepreneur James Liang argued in his latest book The Demographics of Innovation, that as cities grow, they enjoy numerous advantages. but crucially, they have a large domestic market for budding innovators to sell to. but crucially, they have a large domestic market for budding innovators to sell to.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Transport is currently responsible for around 27% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the healthcare workers are hoping to encourage their employer to adopt more cycling-friendly policies among various other sustainability initiatives. Sustainability leadership. The benefits of going green. Making the change.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. But to get change means encouraging innovators. But not fast enough. They want to move fast, unencumbered by tradition.