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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. As a multi-disciplinary partnership, we at CO2 Partners have found Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to be helpful in better understanding the operating environment of an organization.

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How to Approach Leading in Times of Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to identify competitive threats as well as competitive opportunities…. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that. Every leader has an approach to dealing with competition.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It's media disintermediation at work! How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves? The by-now-standard, Christensen-inspired corporate response to disruptive innovation is to create a separate operation, with different incentives and structure than the parent organization, to exploit the innovation.

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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