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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. None of this can be left to chance, allowed to become stale or outsourced to organization­al silos and subcultures, or to outside consultants. Northern Command.

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9 Reasons Your Leadership Development Program is Failing

Nathan Magnuson

I’ve been privileged to help develop several leadership development programs (LDPs) in my career and I can tell you no two are identical for the simple fact that people and organizations are inherently unique – different cultures, different missions, different situations. No Organizational Leadership Vision.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

Over time, notable service firms built outsourcing capacity in India, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to allow any firm to have a global service workforce at low cost. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout. Nimbleness model #2: Customer service outside the perimeter.