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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Together, they’ve been key components of the team that had to scale their leadership to meet the critical increase in demand for their services.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Thus, the businesses in a city — hotels, restaurants, theatres — might affiliate to promote local tourism. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally!

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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Sadly, there is as much misinformation as accurate and reliable information at the moment, so it’s vital that your leadership is underpinned by facts rather than fear. Invest in skills.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business Review

“It was only possible due to the support shown by the country’s top leadership, the presence of stakeholders from across the country on the table, and the active participation of families. . “Qatar is the only country that has such a plan in the whole region,” he explains.