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Strategy for Non-Strategic Leaders

In the CEO Afterlife

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. Fortunately for me, I grew up in strategic environments and I learned to balance operational challenges with strategic opportunity. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

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How Leaders Are Creating Engagement In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

Entertainment, Oracle, Hulu, Boeing, and many other Fortune 500 companies shared their organizations’ experiences and the lessons they’ve learned on how to engage and empower their employees despite the growing challenges and complexities found in today’s global market. It’s okay to miss the mark sometimes.”

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How to Innovate When You're Not the Big Boss

Harvard Business Review

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Can you communicate a compelling case for change and enlist others to support you proposed innovation?

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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business Review

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. If you give a dollar to human resources, or new computers, or staff training, etc., Because no one likes to fund fundraising. It’s sales.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

The retailers left standing are those that figure out how to treat disruption as business-as-usual in an industry accustomed to slow, strategic planning. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Insight center.

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The Rise of the Rude Hiring Manager

Harvard Business Review

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” His goal today? “To

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

To understand how to address these concerns, an academic team from Harvard Business School brought together a group of orthopedic surgeons from the Boston Shoulder Institute and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Boston-based insurer, to create a new BP model focused on patient value. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.