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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. With each decision, we asked ourselves what’s the best way to do something and could we make it even better.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

Leading Blog

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency). However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed.

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Why Your Peers Can't Stand Working With You | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Seeks to understand others’ points of view and goals by asking open ended questions. Leaders who operate in this mode lose their peers in no time flat.

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New Books from HBR Press in November

Harvard Business Review

Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L.