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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. As a consumer of consulting services for more years than I care to admit, I have developed a well defined view of a typical engagement. You also remember the Consultants. Executive.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. The idea of curated customer experiences was something that had to be taught, and we chose candidates who wanted to learn and improve their careers. We didn’t care that “it’s never been done before.” Invest in strategic partnerships.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. employees (47%) experiencing it.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. One such activity was introduced by Deb Henretta while leading P&G Asia.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.