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A World Gone Social

Lead Change Blog

This impacts our brain chemistry and releases cortisol (the fight-or-flight chemical) because we feel threatened, and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform well at work. How should we deal with it? Learn more and register here. The post A World Gone Social appeared first on Lead Change.

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Hacking Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Mike Myatt, leadership advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs and Boards and author of Hacking Leadership , offers a fresh perspective that makes it easy for leaders to create a roadmap for identifying, refining, developing, and achieving their leadership potential—and creating a more effective business that is financially solvent and professionally desirable.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Take the question that has lately been put on the political table because of the prosperity bind facing so many mature economies.

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Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

Harvard Business Review

DuPont was forced to dissolve its patent-pooling arrangements with foreign chemical firms and disgorge its cross-holdings in GM stock, devastating both its top and bottom lines. And on this issue of management distraction,] and organizational maturity, it is instructive to remember that Uber is impossibly young for all it has achieved.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Each firm needs to select or develop its own, appropriate to its functions and products.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Business Reengineering's high priest said core process owners, process maturity, and performance measures are what count. He also advised them to continually assess their processes against a model of process maturity — PEMM for short — which he unveiled in an HBR article.

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Your Innovation Team Shouldn’t Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Harvard Business Review

and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. This is the basis behind Intuit’s practice of putting new product ideas on the Internet before they are developed, as a way to test whether there is a market. Organizations, of course, are not composed of ants.