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New Decade, New What?

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All of which have been almost constantly predicted for decades. Corporate startup accelerators will shrink in importance and public or VC run programmes will take up the slack but to a new more efficient model . The things that actually do happen tend to creep up on us in a banal way. ” .

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Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One

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When Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, it was still unclear what his legacy was going to be. Lou Gerstner understood that and his tenure at IBM produced not only outstanding financial results, but genuine discoveries, such as quantum teleportation, that would serve IBM well for decades.

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If You Want To Lead, You Need To Embrace The Basic Human Need For Status

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One of the reasons that the various schemes of leaderless organizations that have arisen over the past decade ago have not taken root is that they ignore these basic facts of human nature. Do aspiring executives get credit for launching new initiatives that never go anywhere, or successfully managing operations?

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Focus on what you can control

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Often, people can be afraid to begin a new creative endeavor, especially when they compare themselves to people who are the best in the world. What they fail to recognise is that these “best in the world” people have often been working on their skills, craft and experience for decades to get to where they are now.

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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

In the previous post, I indicated that you'd need the same things in order to change as you need to operate your businesses - good people, flexible and dynamic processes and systems that don't lock in processes and business models from the time you implemented the software a decade ago. Every company has a culture.

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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Typically, we are talking about moving a culture from its current set of values that has sustained the business, to a culture that helps the company compete in a new reality that may be different or more competitive or operate in a slightly adjacent market. That's what has led to such a stellar flying record in the US.

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Podcast S7E156: Andy Binns – How corporations can beat startups at innovation

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Andy has worked as a strategic advisor to Leaders for decades, with experience at McKinsey, IBM and now Change Logic. We speak about the myth of only startups being able to innovate, and what it takes for large corporations to be able to execute disruptive innovations.