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How to Find Leadership Blindspots

Leading Blog

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. Shaw suggests that not all blindspots are bad. Personal Development' We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

“The National Health Service produces around 4-5% of the CO2 in the UK so is a major contributor to climate change,” Shaw continues. Your ambition as a leader will be fundamental to guide the necessary actions to steer your company to sustainability leadership and market success.”.

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Ready for Change – book review

Rapid BI

Ready for Change: Chapter 5 – Collaborative Decision-making – Prof Duncan Shaw. Ready for Change: Chapter 8 – Organizational Change and development – Prof Pawan Budhwar, assc Prof. Ready for Change: Chapter 10 – “Marketing is all about T-shirts and posters – Right?”

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business Review

Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business. History is littered with market leaders who didn’t see the opportunities ahead or take action on them.

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Subjective Understanding in the Workplace: Embracing Complexity and Fostering Collective Intelligence

Mike Cardus

Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change.

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

What can firms do better than markets? My former colleagues Sumantra Ghoshal and Peter Moran wrote a landmark paper arguing that, unlike markets, firms deliberately take resources away from their short-term best use, in order to give themselves the chance to create even more value over the long term.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

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