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How to Leverage AI for Smarter Decision Making as a Leader

Lead from Within

Embracing innovative tools and technologies is no longer optional; it’s a strategic imperative. Improving Customer Understanding: In the age of AI, understanding your customers on a deeper level is a competitive advantage. Ethical Considerations: While AI offers incredible potential, it also raises ethical considerations.

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How to Tell if Your Leadership is Going Off the Rails

Lead from Within

While some people live by the mantra “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” leaders can’t afford to have this mindset if they want to stay viable and competitive. Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. Do you want to retain your competitive advantage?

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April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Intercultural competence can serve as both a critical performance management dimension for employees and a meaningful competitive advantage for the organization. Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Ethical Leadership. What we don’t always know is how to act on this understanding.

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5 “NEXT PRACTICES” WHEN HIRING A GENERAL COUNSEL

N2Growth Blog

Today’s successful companies continuously innovate and disrupt the marketplace. Next Practice: Your General Counsel must have the aptitude to not only shape those discussions but also advise the Board on important issues the discussions raise such as public policy, ethics, and risk. He was entirely closed off to innovation.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. Only 53% of financial employees rate their firm’s ability to innovate: at top-performing companies, this figure is 70%. If one thing stifles innovation, it’s closed minds. Willingness to fail.

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How to Thrive Against Giants

In the CEO Afterlife

Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. Be obsessed with creativity and innovation.