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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

Instituting and solidifying lasting change at most colleges and universities is not an overnight phenomenon. Understanding their success has much to teach leaders about how to manage innovation and change. Tools of Cooperation in action When LeBlanc entered the presidency at SNHU in 2003, the institution was on the brink of failure.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.

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We Need To Start Investing In Resilience

Innovation Excellence

We need to finally learn our lesson. There was the SARS pandemic in 2003, the Swine Flu outbreak in 2009, MERS in 2012 and, of course, Ebola in 2014. RAND issued a report in 2012. Unfortunately, if recent events are any indication, we still haven’t learned our lesson. The Path to Pandemic. trillion. We have that power.

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

The “herd behavior” of investors means that most people don’t move until some event happens, and then everyone moves at once carrying out the implications of a sea change in thinking about a company’s future. By July, 2015 we learned that the market cap of Amazon now exceeded that of Wal-Mart.