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4 Ways to a Better Bottom Line

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Global mindset is truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. A global mindset is a critical skill parallel to legal, marketing, sales, or strategy. It fills a strategic tactical need of operating in today’s business setting. Understand customer behavior. Negotiate with vendors.

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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. But less than half of the respondents had a clear sense of how to address the problem.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The power of viral marketing makes it sensible for Seats2meet.com to provide workspaces without asking for financial compensation. In return, they were able to get rid of their marketing department. So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital.

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How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Develop your rationale. Send the host of the meeting an email, saying you wanted to check in about the meeting in question (let’s call it the Operations Update meeting). “Dear Annika, do you have 15 minutes to chat about the Operations Update? ” Stay neutral. Focus on the process rather than the personalities.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Company Fit.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I’ve paid attention to how the best of them operate — how they nurture creativity all around them — and I’ve noticed three things: They build core enthusiast communities inside and outside of their organizations. .” Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees. Further Reading.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa?

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. But it is not clear what it does to help address the rage building at home in the U.S. Perhaps U.S. Distributional Issues.

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