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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

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. 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.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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CEOs Need Courage

Harvard Business Review

To resist doing what everyone else is doing or what you are expected to do requires courage. A friend who has worked for decades at the Bank of America told me that the company fully understood the poor loans it was making. The people working for the bank weren't idiots. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

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Why Bankers Need to Be Put Into Little Boxes

Harvard Business Review

Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism. Wilmers, also known as his annual messages to the shareholders of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corp.

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Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs from the Microfinance Crisis

Harvard Business Review

The microfinance industry has in just a few years gone from making headlines for the Nobel Peace Prize to stories about limited impact, allegedly abusive tactics, client suicides, government crackdowns, major lenders struggling with insolvency and the forcible removal of Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.