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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. Daniel Pink wrote a book entitled A Whole New Mind in 2005, and at the time the book had a nice reception.

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

leadership doesn’t know if they are falling behind their competition. Since 2005, I have been working with companies around the world to transform their businesses. As a result: their teams don’t have the clarity on what they should be delivering or how they should do it. This is why they fail.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Yet, leadership insists on constantly maintaining its undying focus on the fast food success formula upon which the company was launched some 60 years ago.

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Join The Global Movement

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It is a growing problem (66 million and rising at an average of 10% a year since 2005, due to a perfect storm of climate change, conflict and demographic changes). Engaging with children and youth is a cost effective investment in leadership for the future.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

However, most of the conclusions and analysis could easily have been written in 2005. What we need to be talking about is what leadership, process, skill, cultural and motivationa l changes must occur in order to achieve what we know corporations must do. Times have changed, business models have morphed and competition has accelerated.

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Why EPS and Share Price Don’t Predict Future Performance

Adam Hartung

Then leadership took a big chunk of that money and repurchased company shares. Then leadership spent that cash to buy shares, rather than invest in in another growth vehicle. Yet, the stock has tripled since 2005! For example, McDonald’s sold Chipotle and Boston Market. They traded growth for cash.

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Shrink to Grow: Why Don't More Companies Adopt This Strategy?

Michael Roberto

The company's leadership knew that consolidation needed to occur in the defense industry. By 2005, General Dynamics had risen to #115 on the Fortune 500 list. It acquired Bath Iron Works, for instance, to expand its shipbuilding business beyond submarines (Bath produced destroyers). It made a series of other acquisitions as well.

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