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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

This post first appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership : Here’s a question I often get from managers: “I have employees that don’t want to be developed. Development isn’t for everyone, right? I can’t force them to develop if they don’t want to!” They just want to come to work, do their jobs, and go home. Probably not.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Also making the list is Wang Shi, founder and chairman of Vanke, the world’s largest residential home developer.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Rather, Western firms need to make simplicity a key tenet of their innovation process by developing "good enough" offerings that deliver significant value for money to cost-conscious consumers. Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market.

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Trial and Error Is No Way to Make Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. I saw some cool technology.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Investors would fail at seeding tomorrow's disruptive companies and disruptive technologies. It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. People would fail at making wealth maximizing decisions. Prices would fail at carrying meaningful information.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries.