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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Mike Figliuolo is the Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Make it a New Year’s Resolution to identify and groom your replacement.

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Stop Obsessing Over Intellectual Property Rights

Harvard Business Review

Mapping knowledge assets according to how structured and how diffused they are is the basis for developing a powerful knowledge-directed strategy based on strategic combinations among the quadrants we introduced in our last post : Bottom left: In this quadrant lie the company's core competencies.

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management. That approach pleases some stakeholders, but it may put the focus on issues far removed from the company’s core mission.

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Help Us Innovate the Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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The Most and Least Digital Jobs – and How Well They Pay

Harvard Business Review

Workers with lots of education and desirable skills were hired in the knowledge sector, with high pay, perks, and benefits.

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Create a Work Environment That Fosters Flow

Harvard Business Review

In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. In fact, according to these same McKinsey researchers, if we could increase the time we spend in flow by 15-20%, overall workplace productivity would almost double. Managing people Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'