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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. 2 – Doing more of the same is not innovative and does not create value – McDonald’s.

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging May Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Why Women are the Future of Business Innovation. 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. WomEngineering – Women matter in Operations – June 18 & 19, 2015 Chateau de Mery (Paris) France.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Fosters Innovation Skill Building.

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The Evolving Role of The Chief Innovation Officer

Innov8rs

Innovation is evolving, and so is the role of the Chief Innovation Officer. A few decades ago, innovation was just a matter of inventing new products. To stay competitive, the entire organization needs to become more innovative and innovation can’t be delegated and/or relegated to the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) alone.

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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. Now there will be a short-term bump to investors, but long-term cost cutting will decimate a once great innovation leader. But this victory was quite short-lived.

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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. Even corporations with long time commitments to innovation find it difficult to sustain an innovation team or capability. The reporting is fantastic.

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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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