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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Innovative Commitment Google and Tesla exemplify the power of fostering a culture of innovation. Companies must focus on nurturing and developing their human resources. Sales and Marketing Power Amazon’s mastery in using data analytics for personalized marketing and customer service is a benchmark in the digital era.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

How many times have you heard that “knowledge is power?” In every vocation, from academics to business to politics, the knowledge theorem and its power corollary is seemingly undeniable. . Power Corollary: Better Decision-making = Power. Power Corollary: Better Decision-making = Power. The reason?

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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How to Thrive Against Giants

In the CEO Afterlife

The path upon which I am walking is the one paved by powerful corporate cultures and shared employee values. The power they exert from impregnable patents and scale economies is providing unprecedented sales and earnings growth. That doesn’t meant they can’t be strategically powerful. The leader cannot do it alone.

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How to Balance the Demands of Modern Business Leadership

Skip Prichard

Often the lack of this balance between the long-term strategy and the short-term operational demands is the cause of numerous problems from crisis to scandal to poor results. These are the four most powerful words in the leader’s vernacular.”–Lewis, You may achieve it only to find that you lose it again shortly afterwards.

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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) will give protection and resources to workers who join in the U.S. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine. union at the company.

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. The power of the do less better strategy is its capacity to keep thinks a simple and uncluttered from production and distribution all the way to sales, marketing, and service. Nike is a Do Less Better company. 1 Big Idea . Case in point – Nike.

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