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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? These individuals, Lemming Leaders, are less focused on adapting best practices to their specific setting and more concerned with being at the “industry standard”. If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To I drive a Fiat 500.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). It’s probably coming from outside your industry.

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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. In essence, TSC is a data amalgamator, gathering the best peer-reviewed science on the lifecycle impacts and “material” environmental and social issues for a given product category.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

At Lincoln Industries , a manufacturer and distributor of trucking accessories, promoting workers’ health and well-being is embedded in the company’s core mission and values. Senior leaders not only speak of its importance to the organization’s success, they lead by example. This, of course, takes time and support.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes. Together, the automated testing and peer review provide a high level of quality control that frees Google developers to actually work on the needed changes themselves.