Why you (and GE) are feeling dizzy
In industry after industry, companies find themselves facing a new normal. Call it continuous disruption, as oxymoronic as that sounds.
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In industry after industry, companies find themselves facing a new normal. Call it continuous disruption, as oxymoronic as that sounds.
Corporate leaders are admittedly confused by the rapid pace of change. It's no time to be complacent.
Data can identify patterns and illuminate future choices, but relying exclusively on data is like driving relying only on the rearview mirror.
When you weave the emotional connection to what matters most to the buyer together with the logical case for change, you animate the vision. You breathe life into it by making it more concrete.
A key principle of sound project management is the proper definition of roles and responsibilities.
There are several steps businesses can take to foster a culture that habitually and successfully maximizes the benefit of analytics at all levels.
Seeking innovation in frustration is an evergreen method of creating change. And there’s one other benefit: It keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself.
As a leader, what if you feel you’re not innovative? It's possible to create a mindset that will allow you to develop your creativity.
Leaders can't ignore their talent pipelines any longer.
Creativity is often simply the combination of two previously unrelated ideas, so it can indeed be enlightening to ask, “How could we apply the Uber model to our industry?”
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Why is change management so difficult? How can it be made easier?
Most organizations seriously underestimate the time and energy that will be required by the board to conduct a CEO search.
Help your team members discover how they can disrupt the status quo.
Organzational redesigns are complicated, complex efforts with many possible pitfalls, but they aren't impossible to do successfully.
Changing for change’s sake is often ill-advised, not to mention expensive.
The link between employee productivity to company performance remains elusive to many companies.
Big Data to date has helped both sides in the struggle between consumers and corporations. We have to make sure it remains a fair fight.
It’s already time to begin thinking about sales compensation plans for 2018 (believe it or not).
People want to be a part of something when it’s moving forward. You can’t kick-start a car, or a company, without momentum. So get moving.
Leaders are trained to develop plans, there’s little training on or discussion about what happens to plans after they're submitted and underway.
Given the relationship between creativity and results, why don’t more companies work to better foster it?
People work longer and with better technology, yet productivity isn't keeping pace. Why is that?
We often get into action to satisfy our need for closure, not because we have the right action to pursue.
Too many companies have one set of values for employees and another for their brand.
Just as there’s no stopping a tidal wave, creative destruction is a fact of life; our only choices are to ride it or be swamped.
Doing well can, and should, also mean doing good -- and doing good contributes to a company’s growth in major ways.
Concentrate on these five key areas to make sure you’re thinking critically and employing the best strategies to succeed.
Remember: you don’t have to get everything right; you just have to be a little more right than your competitors.
Lost brands are statistically more likely to avoid risk, resist change, and be reluctant to invest.
If your team isn’t regularly wrestling with differences of opinion, there’s a good chance you’ve got groupthink going on. If nobody’s speaking up, somebody probably needs to.
Media companies are better leveraging technology to streamline operations
According to a new survey of more than 1,000 professionals by APQC, a majority of employees remain stuck in traditional closed-door offices and cubicle farms.
Post-mortem meetings have great intentions, but too often they deliver the wrong "lessons learned."
Great leaders honor their “flag” by using it constantly as a potent symbol to remind associates of what they can become, not just what they do.
Unless you can ensure your company, product or service is continually and legitimately "an other," it’ll end up becoming just "another."
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There is no such thing as flawless execution of innovation. Change and disruption, by their very nature, are messy endeavors.
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