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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Growth Is A Leadership Issue, Not A Sales Issue

Eric Jacobson

With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn't come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. Before others will accept what you have to say, they must perceive you as credible.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail

The Practical Leader

Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. They’d slipped and face-planted into all five of the following failure factors I’ve noted over decades of research, writing, and consulting work.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.