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The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service

Strategy Driven

Such a plethora of challenges has required all organizations to rethink their strategy. So, what is the strategy for today’s customer in today’s times? The core of the innovative service strategy must include rethinking the authority of the front line—the venue for in-the-moment inventiveness.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Recently, one of our clients began their corporate change initiative with a simple but very profound statement: “Trust is the foundation of speed and innovation.” Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process. I could not agree more.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Let me start by reassuring you: the chances that you are a strategy tourist are close to zero. But I’m sure you do know a strategy tourist. They like to restart a new strategy exercise every year. I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. THE STRATEGY TOURIST: 20 BEHAVIORS.

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

Strategy Driven

Play strategy games like chess to practice thinking several moves ahead. A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results.

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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Consider leaving a comment!

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time

Strategy Driven

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. During our discussion, Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding: the importance of leadership off-sites to strategy execution. About the Author.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management.

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