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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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5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization 

BrainZooming

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. Rather than starting by pushing your management team all the way out to a wildly reimagined future, start with where you are now. You need to do both as part of reimagining who you are as an organization. Mike Brown.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Can innovation be managed like a business process? Does “managing” innovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, said, “We treat innovation as if it were magical, not subject to guidance or nurturing much less planning. Why manage innovation?

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

Why has our organization been so open and quick to innovate in ways we haven’t been previously once the pandemic hit? The first development driving greater innovation rests on a strategic change framework that we first developed and shared in 2012. Since its development, we continue to refine our thinking on this framework.

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The Punctuality Paradox: The Ethics of Time

Phil McKinney

After accounting for the recommended amount of sleep, we're left with a total of 960 minutes to use as we wish. Why do we insist on scheduling every meeting for an entire hour, when 20 or 30 minutes would suffice? The individuals who schedule meetings often fail to realize the significance of everyone's precious time.

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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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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

We have already talked about how the world has quickly changed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation. Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. Scalable: a profession, activity, or strategy that does not require full dedication to achieve the result.