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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

IdeaSpies

Create Safe Spaces In 2012, Google embarked on an enormous research project. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick. Interestingly, highly innovative teams can be safe for some ideas, but not for others. The same effect has been found elsewhere.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. Now, how about these?

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The question is “Why?”

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. In reality, its free cash flow can’t pay its obligations. Could this have been foreseen?