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A New Era Begins: Our Strategic Partnership with Zenger Folkman

The Practical Leader

As I’ve gotten to know Joe Folkman and others at Zenger Folkman over the past few months, I’ve been very impressed by the high quality and high values team he, Jack, and Bob Sherwin (he was CFO at Zenger Miller) have put together. Zenger Folkman has a treasure trove of research, white papers, books, articles, videos, and webcasts.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Comstock is out. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO told me, “We now understand this is what our future is going to look like… We’re going to have to share data across silos… We have to have digital processes that are data-driven by customers, not just our own people.” Would a LinkedIn linkage make sense?