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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. They must fundamentally shift how they find, inspire, and develop a twenty-first-century workforce. Strategy #9: Embrace Always-On Transformation. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate.

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Apple Lays-Off 200 Titan Project Employees

HR Digest

The company may also partner with other autonomous developers to encourage unique capabilities. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out.

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

Harvard Business Review

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Simply and clearly put, CI is a perspective on changing market conditions.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business Review

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. ” Create win-win incentives.

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Don't Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine

Harvard Business Review

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. billion — not a bad decade.

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