Strategy
Are you a disruptive or transformational leader?
Being disruptive is not the same as being a disruptive leader. Be transformational if you want to disrupt.
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A senior meteorologist’s 3 steps for mitigating risks before a disaster
Disasters are unpredictable, unavoidable, and take many forms. Is your organization ready?
Strategy
Executive Ritalin: 3 steps that prevent leadership from killing your project
Here is a simple three-step process for staving off executive impatience that leads to killing off promising projects.
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4 innovation lessons from the world of architecture
Business leaders and architects are both innovators, even if they don't seem to be doing the same thing.
Strategy
Passion-based service design: How to win and retain customers
Smart leaders know that skill alone won’t woo, wow and win customers. You need people with the right passions to develop and sustain a competitive edge.
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Overcoming the 5 obstacles to organizational agility
What are the common roadblocks or challenges that deter agility? This article explains each of the 5 key challenges.
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5 keys to unlocking your innate creativity
How can we open our minds and wander into new, innovative territory?
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The 2 kinds of people in business
Do you make things simple or complex? A warning: The last thing any organization needs is a manager who adds complexity to complexity
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Refocusing on the middle: The intersection of strategy and agility
Middle management is the key to any successful changes in strategy and agility.
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How passion fuels innovation
How do you continue to innovate and lead in your industry, and with your existing workforce when you don't have the budget for M&A?
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Finding and using the right technology
Using technology can help airlines better manage operations
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Building a connected airline to increase profitability
Airlines are increasingly using technology and data to better service
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Enacting the plan: The intersection of strategy and agility
What’s underpinning strategic inflexibility? What can organizations do to improve their flexibility?
Strategy
Back, then forth: An alternative strategy
The trajectory of business is not always a continuous angle upward. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of reflection to identify weaknesses that need to be addressed.
Strategy
Putting the pieces together: The intersection of strategy and agility
What strategic practices help organizations become better at identifying and responding to strategic threats and opportunities? APQC research examined this issue.
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Picking up the pace: The intersection of strategy and agility
How do we define organizational agility? And what might that mean for your organization?
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Your company is at 50 employees. What’s next?
Nine entrepreneurs share what you'll need to be aware of as your company passes the 50-employee mark.
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The need for updated technology
Airlines are working to better utilize up-to-the-minute information about customers, preferences and revenue streams
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Optimizing airline revenue in today’s environment
How airlines can optimize total revenue to increase profit
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3 stories you need potential customers to tell and 3 ways to get them to
Getting buyers to talk is easy. Getting them to tell you stories requires a little more work. Here are some tactics to try.
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Why marketing is critical for health care plans
Health care marketing is at a critical time in the industry
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What’s the ROI? Wrong question
When ROI can’t be calculated with reasonable certainty, don’t give into the temptation to fudge the numbers or, worse, kill the initiative. Instead, ask a second question: “What’s the RONI -- the Risk of Not Investing?”
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How to get the most from your building automation system
Building automation systems help improve operations and save money
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How top companies recruit employee mentors
Finding the right mentors in the right numbers is difficult. Here is what several organizations do to build up their mentorship programs.
Strategy
Internal crowdsourcing isn’t new, but are you still missing out?
To capture innovation, leaders need to move beyond pure technology solutions and scale the internal crowdsourcing that's already taking place.
Strategy
10 companies on a benefit policy that works for them
Younger entrepreneurs share a benefit they offer that isn't the norm but is producing results.
Strategy
How mentoring helps prepare new hires at Praxair
An increasing number of organizations are supplementing formal training with workplace mentoring programs. Here's what Praxair has done.
Strategy
Looking beyond the numbers in wellness program ROI
A wellness program requires commitment, strategic execution and looking at a metric called value on investment.
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Innovation and the goldilocks factor — finding the level of challenge that’s just right
Innovation can be better achieved through the setting of concrete, achievable yet challenging goals.
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Dealing with denial at the top
Companies are often in denial about reality. Even when employees are aware, they often ask, "“What do I do if my boss is in denial?”
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5 barriers to sustained business growth
The "Greiner Curve" can help us understand the challenges businesses encounter as they grow -- and what they can do to continue growing.
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The evolution of data and the impact on fraud investigations
Health care companies are using data for better insights and to stay ahead of fraud.
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Managing creativity
Creativity nurtures the organization and for that reason it must be fostered and stimulated.
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Leadership actions to keep jobs here in the US
OK, leaders, when can you start? What actions do you see to help keep jobs here in the US?
Strategy
How to manage the global sourcing of services
Today’s guest post is from Robert Kennedy, executive director of the William Davidson Institute and Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at the University...
Leadership
Strategic restructuring: Are you cutting fat or muscle?
Strategic restructuring must be well-organized to ensure growth is created, not just cutbacks. Learn more.
Strategy
Diverse religions, diverse solutions
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question...
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Franny Oxford on what small businesses need most
Franny Oxford is an HR executive with a passion for entrepreneurial organizations. The blogger behind Do the Work, she is a member of our...
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The sustainable model we already have
Today’s guest post is by Gregory Unruh, professor of global business at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of “Earth, Inc.” Business sustainability...
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Crowdsourcing begins at home
It’s said that no one is a prophet in his or her own country. As it turns out, with the exception of such companies...