Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Instead of focusing on moment–by-moment market predictions, author Daniel Altman, looks at deeper, underlying economic factors that we frequently overlook in the short-term view. Outrageous Fortunes is a book about what in economic terms, could be. It is a provocative guide to global trends.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. Technology trends. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a. According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. They are part of performance not a distraction from it.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

New technology all the time. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world. Also, it’s one of those majors that will never trend or be posted on Yahoo as a growing area, so the market never gets flooded for food scientists and they are always in high demand.

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I use data-driven learning for employees’ performance data, financial data, work analysis, and benchmarking data to keep pace with market trends. Do you initiate knowledge-sharing within the team to promote diversity & inclusion in the workplace? Immersive technology is definitely the future.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Those same consumers do their own marketing when they shop at grocery stores. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a shame Obama — and the Western press — didn't pay attention to the far bigger story happening in many of the countries on his visit: real, game-changing innovations from emerging markets that could point the way for currently stagnant Western firms. And relatively simple online technology magnifies these incentive effects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. tyler garrison/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Third, that there is no alternative to rising inequality without turning our backs on trade and technology. Between 1980 and 2016, inequality between the world’s citizens increased, despite strong growth in emerging markets. Policy – not trade or technology – is most responsible for inequality. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Iceland, Norway) as well as in countries still working toward achieving their gender diversity quotas (e.g., There was also resistance to following the European example. Australia, Denmark, the U.S.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Third, that there is no alternative to rising inequality without turning our backs on trade and technology. Between 1980 and 2016, inequality between the world’s citizens increased, despite strong growth in emerging markets. Policy – not trade or technology – is most responsible for inequality. In the U.S.,

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Globalization Policies Trends Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. My advice is to resist that urge. In 2015 it had $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. Step 1: Anticipate Resistance. The second step is to reconcile publicly stated resistance to your idea with its true, hidden motivation. juanluisgx/Getty Images. Step 2: Unmask Political Motives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. There was lots of resistance. Fostered global teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Businesses can be equally complex: a diversity initiative, for example, might include some compulsory training, but if this triggers sentiments of resistance and skepticism, it can be self-defeating. A little later, the U.S. customers in order to boost sales.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” Furthermore, the evidence suggests that diversity will actually improve the quality of the strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade. We face a public health emergency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? Are there difficult moves that must be made to create a winning strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Work and workers (yes, humans) will always be essential to organizations, but organizations themselves will be more diverse, and work will be organized, structured, and done in new ways, increasingly through arrangements outside of regular full-time employment. All-inclusive global talent market. Exponential technology change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Although some firms have relented, many continue to resist. Diversity of opinions, rather than indicating board dysfunction, may also give shareholders confidence that the board is tackling important issues holistically and not plagued by groupthink. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Alarm waned toward the end of the 19th century, as experts came to believe that “modern industry” and “rapid communications” were making people more open to change and hence more resistant to the disease.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This becomes more critical as market life cycles shorten and the time in which companies can maintain product differentiation shrinks. Buying behavior has changed in many markets. Compressed differentiation characterizes competition in more markets. Disconnected Go-to-Market efforts. Innovate through experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

The data provocateurs I’ve worked with form a diverse lot: scientists, HR specialists, people at the lowest management levels, division presidents, relative newcomers, and seasoned veterans. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services. Learn and gain confidence as you go.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees. (To

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. The article, by J.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

But although these forces created a brain that can solve highly complex problems, create art, and feel compassion, our clever brains let us down in one key respect: greenhouse gases and other byproducts of our very living now pose an accelerating threat to the future of the planet and its diverse forms of interconnected life, including our own.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. Indeed, assessing an innovator’s GQ—the Globality Quotient—has become a standard market test.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. Scholars who have benefited from the way scholarly impact is traditionally assessed (by counting only or primarily “A” journal publications) may resist seeing scholarship assessed more pluralistically. We’re just not there yet.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

According to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, disclosures of government hacking by former security contractor Edward Snowden greatly accelerated the push to encrypt everything. Over half of all web traffic is now secured, as invisible to ISPs as it is to the NSA.

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