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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. 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. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging May Newsletter

Leapfrogging

2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. How To Learn New Words Quickly and Efficiently. WomEngineering – Women matter in Operations – June 18 & 19, 2015 Chateau de Mery (Paris) France.

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Innovation: How to Recruit and Retain Top Millennial Talent

Idea to Value

However, the Pew Research Center specifically delineates Millennials as people ages 18-34 in 2015. [2] million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9 2] After tabulating the recently released U.S. million) as this country’s largest living generation. [3]. 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4]

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Many felt leadership was over-spending on overhead costs like R&D,product development and headquarters personnel. But this victory was quite short-lived. By October, Ms.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and In 2013, Axel Springer made a minority investment in AirBnB upon the company’s leadership visit to the Silicon Valley. “We Axel Springer also invested in Runtastic, a fitness startup that sold for 220 million Euros in 2015. and necessary?—?for We never made a bet.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. From what I can see of this report it is an excellent synopsis of the state of play of innovation in 2015. Times have changed, business models have morphed and competition has accelerated.

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