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Teams and Thinking Style

Coaching Tip

While teambuilding and sensitivity training workshops abound, they typically deliver little in the way of long-term impact, often because they overlook an essential factor driving team performance: thinking. When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says. “A Or Just Not Using Their Heads?

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Nuclear Power is Clean, Safe, and Reliable… But Can It Be Competitive?

Strategy Driven

An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Unlike other clean energy sources, nuclear power is available during all weather conditions, offers price stability, and on-site long-term fuel supplies.

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Ron Moen and Cliff Norman Discuss the Evolution of Deming’s Management Ideas

Deming Institute

The podcast guides us through Deming’s own learning, starting with SQC (Statistical Quality Control) to SQC for Management (which he taught to the Japanese) through the tremendous growth in the 1980’s after the NBC White Paper “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” It is hard to convey that idea easily.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out. So what happened?

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Strive to become known as a thought leader in your space.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. The largest U.S.

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Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research — Here’s How They Do It

Harvard Business Review

has been an innovation superpower. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S.