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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”. That’s quite hard for people who have really only had one quiver [sic] in their leadership bow, which is command and control.

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. But they also created a “lab” where they brought in real live customers to test-drive new online banking products.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Crowdfunding Your Company

Steve Farber

” But as anyone who’s ever tried to finance their great idea knows, the money still needs some help leaping into your bank account so you can put it to work. If enough people give even a little, the startup can bank what it needs to get rolling. They’re securing equity.

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Cascades: 6 Principles for Creating Transformational Change

Leading Blog

The alternative you present must be better not just for the believers but for those outside the early adopter group. And these values must be communicated by and lived out through the behavior of the leadership. Yet that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. For Gandhi it was salt.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business Review

It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. While we can’t yet predict how it will re-shape the market, the prevalence with which AI is already embedded into our core technologies favors early adoption.

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