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Brands, Leadership and the Climate Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Whilst hyper-relevance, ultra-personalisation, collaboration, ethics and sustainability are the crucial foundations of success; those tasked with creating that innovation are now faced with the challenge of the environmental crisis. This meaning that society and business alike are confronted with an existential dilemma.

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The Climate Crisis and Brand Futures

Strategy Driven

I believe that hyper-relevance, ultra-personalisation, collaboration, ethics and sustainability are the crucial foundations of success. Indeed, the Governor of the Bank of England, memorably declared a few months ago that “firms ignoring the climate crisis will go bankrupt”. For strategists, the implications are profound.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

It starts out rather peaceful; but as cows are steered from the open pasture into small holding pens and then forced to go up a loading chute and onto the truck, it requires low voltage electric prods to convert their resistance into compliance. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness.

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What to Do If Your Boss Asks You to Break the Rules

Harvard Business Review

Do we go along to get along or do we resist? But these tactics fall flat when faced with disputes of an ethical, moral, or legal nature. How might an ethical but job-dependent employee respond to these disputes effectively? How we address such disputes can have serious consequences for our organization and ourselves. Take power.

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Twelve Rules for New Grads

Harvard Business Review

Arrogance breeds resistance; even if you really do have all the right answers, you need to bring people along with you. So if you don''t already have a strong work ethic and good work habits, either strive to develop them, or prepare yourself for mediocrity. As Aristotle so aptly put it, "We are what we repeatedly do.

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What Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Finding a Career

Harvard Business Review

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. ” Instead, help them think through the tradeoffs they’ll have to make.

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