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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

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For Growth, New Ideas Aren't Enough

Harvard Business Review

Others are a poor strategic fit. Most of these won't work out — one study found that a company needed to generate, on average, 3,000 raw ideas to find one that could be a commercial success. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator. There are "innovation boot camps." And so it goes.

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The Secrets to Building a Lucky Network

Harvard Business Review

There are no guarantees to entrepreneurial success. Warren Buffett has famously credited most of his success to Luck. In research for we did for our forthcoming book, Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck , my co-authors and I were surprised at how many of the entrepreneurs and business builders we talked to attributed their success to Luck.