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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) started testing individual problem solving skills in 2012 and added collaborative problem solving skills in the 2015 assessments.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2015 that you might have missed: Some of the Things I''ve Learned - What Will Matter by @Josephson0. Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. In the 1998 letter he has a section titled Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History where he details the guidelines Amazon uses to decide who to hire. In the 2015 Letter he talks about the benefits of high-velocity decisions. Jeff Bezos.

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Preparing for the Cyberattack That Will Knock Out U.S. Power Grids

Harvard Business Review

Nobody, though, is showing any leadership.” Just look at the Ukraine power grid attack in 2015 , where the attackers used several different techniques , such as spear phishing and denial-of-service attacks, that were all readily available on the black market of the internet. And we need it now.

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What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine

Harvard Business Review

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.” ” Enter social media.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016.

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