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Nike Layoffs Announcement to Affect 740 Employees by June 28

HR Digest

The news of Nike’s layoffs have not been sudden as the company has spent 2024 gradually easing employees into gearing up for job cuts with the intention of “right-sizing” the business efficiently.

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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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When Your Best Customers Really Aren't

Harvard Business Review

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. You emphasize the importance of collaborating with your customers to innovate," he moaned, "but our best customers don't want to collaborate. They're not interested in innovating with us.".

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. And efficiency in pursuit of decision reached without rigor is just doing the wrong things more quickly.

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The First 90 Days in a New CIO Position

Harvard Business Review

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives. Generate Room for Innovation.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.