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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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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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The Nuclear Way: Submarine Leadership Challenges

MSSBTI

How would you adjust to transferring from a self contained organization with a command and control leadership style to one with a distributed leadership style? This is where the shift in leadership style from command and control to distributive pays off. How would you adapt? How would you prepare? And how would you be received?

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Being Thrown Under The Bus: The Dilemma of Blame

Phil McKinney

billion against the acquisition in 2012, HPE executive leadership got busy throwing HP staff under […]. Last Thursday, the UK courts ruled there was fraud by Autonomy, their CEO and CFO related to its acquisition by HPE. When HPE wrote down $8.8

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2012 Lego launched ‘Lego Friends’ with a more realistic ‘mini-doll’ Sales to girls tripled. Galvanize the culture. Knudstorp revolutionized the corporate culture. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. Collaborate to innovate.

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Culture of Innovation Video and Case Study: Cambia Health Solutions Transforms the Health Care Landscape Through Innovation

Planview

Cambia is an exemplary example of how organizations can create a culture of innovation by engaging their most valuable resource—their people. The Cambia Health Solutions Case Study: Creating a Culture of Innovation. Nair and his team turned to Spigit for help in 2012. Kudos to the leaders for driving a culture of innovation.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

I invite those dear friends who offered their suggestions to include them in the comments below—as well as anyone else who can see what is certain to end badly—as internal politics and stagnating ideas cause those who should know better to obscure the mandate of leadership.