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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Yet conventional silos, management practices and mindsets act as brakes on all of these. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed.

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Have You Tied Your Organization’s Goals To Your Noble Cause?

Tanveer Naseer

It’s the reason why some companies have managed to thrive and expand their market base despite the uncertainties present in today’s global economy, because they’re not simply reacting to what’s going on around them.

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Some compile complex Customer Relationship Management algorithms to develop and maintain these relationships. The challenge of sustaining long-term value pushes businesses toward considering short-term relationships as the easiest route to profits. But the customer satisfaction benchmark is confounding.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society?

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Win Loss Analysis: A Strategic Imperative | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. In short, it works. This common organizational behavior ultimately corrupts decision making as senior managers make decisions based on inaccurate information derived from prospects who were not fully candid and salespeople who are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased information.

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CEOs Can Attract Long-Term Investors

Harvard Business Review

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Acting and communicating in this fashion will also start to attract long-term investors.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results.