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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.

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A Failure To Act – The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions

Lead Change Blog

Failure To Inform – It’s difficult enough to gain competitive intelligence; why would we withhold our own? Failure To Resolve Conflict In A Timely Fashion – Debate is a healthy and necessary component of everyday business. ” It can manifest itself as a plain old fashion lack of feeling appreciated.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The second requirement is to anticipate response to your competitive moves so that they are not derailed by unexpected reactions. Leadership is happy to ask that proposals and presentations be backed by “data.” This competitive intelligence sign-off is simple to institutionalize.

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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The following list is comprised of a few representative examples of reasons why all CEOs should be actively engaged in social media: Leadership Benefits : As CEO, you’re not supposed to be the relic, but the visionary. Whether you Tweet, Blog, Facebook, YouTube, etc.,

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. If you make competitive intelligence everyone’s responsibility, it will be forgotten.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. I wrote the following guide when I worked for a large global company (“ABC”) to help support a strategy to move executives across at least two functions, businesses, and countries. This last assignment forced me to develop a new leadership style.

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American Competitiveness Demands Immigration Reform

Harvard Business Review

A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability. While her Latin America–based colleagues had been trying to push for a more local strategy for years, it took someone working within the U.S.