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Elevate Your Strategy: Leading Executive Team Offsites for Business Success

Leapfrogging

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

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Why Companies are Turning to Innovation Centres

Destination Innovation

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. An innovation centre is a team of people and a physical location. The report identifies six key goals for innovation units: • Accelerate the speed of innovation.

Company 100
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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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Why Activists Succeed – and Will Change Yahoo

Adam Hartung

He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings. Many big investors say that activists are the only way shareholders can do anything about lousy management teams that fail to deliver, and Boards of Directors that let management be lazy and ineffective.

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What do most innovative companies have in common?

hackerearth

So much that a McKinsey survey reported that 94 percent executives are unhappy with their business’ innovation performance. They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. They promote innovation leadership. A common approach that drives innovation.

Company 77
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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Similar problems apply at the leadership level, too, where often everyone from the manager to the senior level fails to understand the impact of these fundamental human skills.