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As any person in leadership will tell you, they believe that in order to stay competitive, their organizations must be continuously learning and improving on a daily basis. However, even those companies esteemed for their commitment to continuous improvement (Toyota for example), are finding it difficult to practice what they preach. HBR examines in detail, why organizations don’t learn…..
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Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by the then CEO of GE, Jack Welch. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world where our communications technologies have dramatically improved. Nevertheless, many organizations still have hierarchical, siloed, and fragmented processes and cultures, and…
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In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity, supplementing and increasingly winning business from, many high-profile companies including Cisco, Google, IBM, Samsung, Siemens and Disney. But building an internal consulting group is an unprecedented endeavor for many companies. Harvard Business Reviews reports back on what has been learned about how to establish a successful internal…
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Zombie projects are the enemies of well-intentioned innovation initiatives in many organizations, regardless of industry or region. These projects fail for whatever reason and do not fulfill their promise. Yet they trudge on, sucking up resources without any real hope of positively impacting a company’s strategy or revenue prospects… To read more, click here. Image (source)
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APRIL 09, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War – just a month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. Needless to say, Lincoln became one of America’s most revered presidents and his best-known speech is, of course, the Gettysburg Address. This speech is often studied for means of rhetorically claiming its…
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In life – regardless of whether you are looking to hire someone or decide to trust someone – the better you are at judging people, the better. Unfortunately, effective communication is a challenge of most people, and it’s even harder to read others. Several decades of research has focused on the mental processes we use to interpret…
