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How Music Artists Use Strategy-Driven Tactics to Rise to Fame (And What Businesses Can Learn from It)

Strategy Driven

Artists are the ideal business to look to when searching for new, innovative ways to expand your business and grow an audience. One of the biggest lessons that businesses can learn from artists like Dertee is that to truly innovate and grow one must pursue their art again and again. Reinvention and Creation.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make

Harvard Business Review

But recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation (PDF) shows that an inherently diverse workforce can be a potent source of innovation, as diverse individuals are better attuned to the unmet needs of consumers or clients like themselves. What does it take to consistently drive growth and innovation?

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual?

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

According to a new study published by the Center for Talent Innovation, Latinos at Work: Unleashing the Power of Culture , most Latinos in the U.S. They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes. Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4