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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership. Living in the past is not good, nor is living in the present without wisdom of the past. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Rookie Smarts : Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work by Liz Wiseman Experience has its upside but its downside may hold us back more than we think. What we know will likely impede our ability to learn and therefore perform. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Blog Post ).

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.).

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’re familiarizing yourself with new processes or new people, there will be a learning curve. “One of the most attractive aspects of returning was that the company had grown considerably while retaining most of the same senior leadership team I was familiar with,” she says. Network around the company.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.” Building Empathy.

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The Big Picture of Business: Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

Strategy Driven

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Benchmarking. Goal Inspiring.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Potential customers for our ideas have a predilection for thinking more about what they are already thinking, of scaling the learning curve they are already on.