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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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Beyond Disruption: Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive

Leading Blog

In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.” The authors highlight a wide variety of examples of nondisruptive-market-creating innovations to help expand our view of innovation. Look beyond the existing market and environment.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

In terms of psychological safety, how safe do employees feel when their leaders are bullies, abrasive, dogmatic, and toxic? The space for innovation and growth relies on dimensions of character that are often in short supply, like transcendence — being appreciative, inspired, purposive, optimistic, creative, and future-oriented.

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Has Your Company Been Anchored To The Wrong Information?

Lead Change Blog

The exec team didn’t bother to plan for a work disruption of more than 2 weeks, deciding to comply with early standards from the CDC to prepare for just a short disturbance due to a short-term infection break out. The resulting shock and outrage within the firm resulted in a large decrease in efficiency as well as morale.

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Managing Productivity and Morale

Coaching Tip

The greatest resource of any organization is its workforce, and balancing employee morale with productivity is the key to creating an environment and culture where collaboration governs and success thrives. Managing Productivity and Morale. Melissa Russell writes on marketing and business management.

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10 Exceptional Strategies For Extraordinary Executives

N2Growth Blog

Organizations reorganize too quickly when an initiative falls short instead of regrouping, adjusting their approach and re-executing well. Marketing matters. Unfortunately, in most organizations marketing is a haphazard practice. Marketing is the epitome of delayed gratification. Marketing is a marathon not a sprint.

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 2) Dream aggressively quantitatively over a long-term horizon, tempered by economic factors at the “macro” level.

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