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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

Several years ago, a dear friend of mine, Darrell Mann, CEO of Systematic Innovation , predicted that some catastrophic event would soon plague humanity. He could not determine what it was going to be, only that the systems that humanity created were going to be challenged with devastating effects in the short term.

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How to Approach Leading in Times of Uncertainty

CO2

Several years ago, a dear friend of mine, Darrell Mann, CEO of Systematic Innovation , predicted that some catastrophic event would soon plague humanity. He could not determine what it was going to be, only that the systems that humanity created were going to be challenged with devastating effects in the short term.

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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

More effort and work to gather employee experience , voice of customer data, and systems to collect disintermediated people data – and share the macro effects then use micro-actions to make change and adust (much of this is using scaled technology) Managerial-leadership will become more distributed.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

But banks cannot control the rules of engagement as they have in the past, since customers now have more choices and are more fragmented, and disintermediation by fintech is making it harder to earn fees. Innovate ferociously. To mitigate the lost revenue, banks are redoubling efforts in retail and corporate banking. What works in U.S.

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The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions

Harvard Business Review

What these new species have in common is that they’re based on open systems. These systems are digital at their core, and leverage network effects and the ability of the “digital democracy” to find the best talent and ideas wherever they exist. Such systems are taking on incumbents in every industry. Take more control.

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation' It’s simple, and it works beautifully.