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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Used to set priorities around core competencies.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

With a lot of wisdom and good things to say about leadership – hop over to his blog and be sure to subscribe. The navy’s leadership knew training everyone to replace anyone was a core success and survival factor. He regularly blogs about leadership on The thoughtLEADERS Blog.

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Help Us Innovate the Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

In one recent McKinsey study, only 24% of respondents felt that their company wouldn't benefit from a more robust pipeline of new ideas. To that end, we're launching the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize: Innovating Innovation Challenge. Want some hard evidence? The innovation process is in need of some innovation itself.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust

Harvard Business Review

market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. Bob Lutz, who held leadership roles at General Motors, BMW, Ford, and Chrysler, describes a “reign of terror” that had long prevailed at VW.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors. And it’s not just your company.