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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. To explain this concept, Sinek has developed what he calls the “Golden Circle,”. 1) When developing, maintaining and growing my business, I have focused heavily on the ‘why’. What does that even mean?

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Worse still, Bob’s behavior and the accolades he receives simply reinforce the notion that everyone should work around the system. No one seems to grasp that if the system were fixed, there would be no need for heroes like Bob. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. One of the most effective methods for gaining leverage over ourselves is to set up a reward system that encourages correct and discourages incorrect behavior. Also, it should go without saying that such a reward/denial system should align with the goals set.)

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). An organization with an offensive strategy radically adapts its portfolio of businesses, developing new business models to build a growth path that is more robust than before digitization.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. He needed to fix this.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. The private sector can’t do it for themselves because they would need access to the public system. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. We don’t want to go there.