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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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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

BrainZooming

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Customer-Focused Innovation Strategy. Which ones would we accelerate? Innovation.

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Strategic Planning in a Dancing Landscape

MSSBTI

So, you do your analysis, you create a strategy to reach your optimum point, and you execute it. Consider a company that had an international expansion plan in 2012. Strategic planning is more essential, but leadership has to consider it differently using a Complexity Lens. By 2013, Brazil and India were both suspect.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices.

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

There was no strategic thinking happening at WalMart, as executives believed there would never be a need to change the strategy. 4 – In April, 2012 WalMart found itself mired in a scandal regarding bribing Mexican government officials in its effort to grow sales.

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