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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market. In other cases, the salesperson might be told to submit a Product Modification Input Solicitation form to product development, marketing, and three other committees to review. They take the market or customers at face value. The company has changed strategic course.”

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30 Influencers Behind the Brands We Love

Lead Change Blog

What can we learn from these top digital marketers, and how do we engage and influence them? Tami Cannizzaro ( @tamicann ), Vice President, Marketing, IBM. Julia Quinn ( @JuliaAQuinn ), Director, Social Media, Amtrak. Jamie Coomber ( @Jamiec ), Global Director, Digital Brand Marketing and Communications, Converse.

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Ten Types of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Larry Keeley with Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters John Wiley & Sons (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison With regard to the Edison quotation, I agree while presuming to add, “Execution without discipline is merely activity.”

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GM Cruise Layoffs Affecting Almost 24% of the Workforce

HR Digest

On Wednesday, Cruise fired nine executives, including its chief operating officer and chief legal and policy officer amid an external investigation led by law firm Quinn Emmanuel into the accident and Cruise’s response. The unit’s CEO Kyle Vogt and co-founder Dan Kan both resigned last month.

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The Demotivated Employee: What Causes Employees to Lose Their Motivation?

Strategy Driven

Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn (2011) have identified four cultures that are indicative of most organizations: clan, adhocracy, hierarchy and market. People often choose to work for an organization because the culture “fits” their preferences for how they want to work.

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Combining Methods To Boost Your Web Presence

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski. Social media sites can give you access to your market. If you don’t have a website for your business, or if your website is outdated, consider revamping the entire thing. Think about it this way. How do customers ask you for information? They phone your business line, right?

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Phil Johnston, an executive search leader at Spencer Stuart, confirms that Quinn’s initial reaction wasn’t unusual: “When a CEO asks a business leader to run HR, the most frequent response is ‘What did I do wrong?’ I push leaders.

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