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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Preview Thursday: Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose

Lead Change Blog

This paradigm is often called the “ shareholder primacy ” model, and it underlies our capital markets and business models. But then something happened to change my view of the shareholder primacy model. How could we expect that to turn out well?

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling. A world in flux, now : And it is happening, right now, to businesses in almost every industry, everywhere in the world. The business models of the past are transforming at a breathtaking pace.

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The Necessity of Strangers: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Gregerman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why it is imperative to engage, learn from, and collaborate with strangers As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how deceptively complicated the word “stranger” is. The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success Alan S.

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The Fall of the Alphas

First Friday Book Synopsis

Martin’s Press (2013) This is another “time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence—and Lead Dana Ardi St.

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Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College

Mike Cardus

April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices. Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.

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Could Solar Power The Next Industrial Revolution?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, in the UK, dozens of energy companies face bankruptcy as the long-term contracts they have signed with customers on low prices render their business model unviable in a world in which the price of liquefied natural gas rose by two-thirds in less than a month. The green economy. Solar as a service.

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