Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This workshop will teach you how to find unique perspectives, think more creatively, enhance your creative expression, and help you manifest positive change for yourself and for your career and company. When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 8:30am-12:00pm. Empower yourself and attend this workshop!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really is. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the title of […].

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. At a time when creativity and innovation are at a premium, good ideas are actually more threatening than ever. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Clarity inspires focused creativity and guides a team’s thinking. Michael Hyatt.

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Creativity Mentor Follow-up Objective 223

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Finally, I ask, “How many of you are operating in a constantly changing competitive environment?” Beginning with the Financial Crisis of 2008, most organizations have adopted a do more with less approach to their operations. That’s usually about 100 percent of the hands. That is most definitely 100 percent of the hands.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

They figured out that fear paralyzes initiative, stifles creativity, and provides no incentive to stretch and to grow. When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in early 2013 he immediately showed the world his leadership style would be different than those before him. We must recognize the same.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

You’re able to face criticism with confidence and courage When the collections industry later came under fire, Encore felt confident they had nothing to hide about how they operate. Below the surface, every leader brims with this incredible generosity, creativity and motivation. So, what’s your noble goal?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. A different picture. trillion at the time of writing.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. Along with showing a little creativity in your marketing, you also need to show off your PR skills. Or, big execution. Need a tangible?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Creating meaning, teaching, empathy, self control, creativity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to define consequences, will be indispensable skills to prosper in the future. He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. The thrill of breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Depending on the degree to which a person uses the top and bottom systems in optional ways, he or she will operate in one of four cognitive modes: Mover, Perceiver, Stimulator and Adaptor. Such people may be creative and original, able to think outside the box even when everybody around them has a fixed way of approaching an issue.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. ed performance.

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Decentralization Idea Generation Content Document 59

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. And it’s meant to be hard.

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Leadership Motivation Teamwork Globalization 279

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

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. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Share on Twitter ] “There’s also the added benefit for how using our vacation time to focus on our other interests can help us to flex our creativity muscles, enabling us to discover new ideas and opportunities that we can look into exploring when we return to work.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Wiseman Long-term 277

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Brown Johnson – Executive Producer and Creative Director Sesame Street.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.” We need to have a greater awareness for what would compel our employees to commit their talents, creativity, and insights to our shared purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

And — gasp — lawyers are now realizing that if nobody is looking after the business end of things — ahem — in other words, being strategic, the entire operation can come to a crashing halt. Witness the spectacular bankruptcy of once high-flying Dewey & LeBoeuf.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc…. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model. I’ve blogged about some of the problems and chaos on my blog before. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. This is a process that can be learned and applied by everyone, not just the “creative” types. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Right about now you are feeling like you have this CEO thing down cold! Maybe it is finally time to work on that golf game.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Katarina Berg: [ I actually introduced Walk & Talk some 18 years ago on Leadership programs to improve lateral thinking, exercise and getting a better understanding for whats on the managers mind ] HR walks are a chance for meaningful conversation paired with a walk for a boost of creativity and focus.

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Development Globalization Diversity Maturity 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. It also turns out to be great for the creativity that drives our business.” ” This led us to wonder whether non-discrimination policies, specifically ENDAs, truly foster creativity in the workplace, and, if so, how.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Loose cultures tend to be open and creative, but are more disorganized. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace Creativity, Inc. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. You will ask yourself, as I did back in December 2013, should I accept this job?

Politics 11

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing?

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. After all, they are born from a new idea, and survive by finding creative ways to make that idea commercially viable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. But there are lots of myths about gig work, whether full-time or part time.

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Airlines Retail Loyalty Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Using brand personality in this way is not simply about developing creative communications; it’s about infusing every aspect of your operations with your unique character. How – personality. Harley-Davidson, Trader Joe’s, and The Honest Co.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. And above all, it means making rules that don''t stifle creativity in the business.

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