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Boost Innovation by Strengthening the Organization’s Immune Systems

Great Leadership By Dan

Grundfos, the Danish water pump manufacturer, is among the legacy organizations that have intentionally restructured their rewards systems to boost innovation. Or, look at how the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has disrupted the regulated banking industry. But new business models can also seek out places where restrictions don’t apply.

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Are You Struggling to Lead Change? Try This

Frank Sonnenberg Online

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Change-friendly is also about leadership.

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Why Businesses Must Think Beyond Shareholders

Skip Prichard

Never in the history have so many technologies matured at the same time from social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, quantum computing, and more. The combinatorial effects of these technologies have suddenly accelerated progress exponentially toward the hyperconnected world, we live in today.

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

Paid on a type of “commission” basis, but you earn a percentage of the fee a client pays the company (most clients are banks, at least at my company). New technology all the time. Allows you to focus on different aspects of organizations – restructuring, selection, retention, leadership development, etc.

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The “Quiet Life” Hypothesis Is Real: Managers Will Put Off Hard Decisions If They Can

Harvard Business Review

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Nissan rearranged business relations with them under the strong leadership of Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan from 1999 to 2017.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Oka had found feedback from US regulators very helpful in his efforts to revive Union Bank and saw an opportunity to do something similar at Nikon.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.