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The energy transition we are undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

To quote from Wikipedia : “The Paris Agreement was an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation , adaptation , and finance , signed in 2016. We lack leadership here. We need inspirational leadership.

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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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The Evolving Role of The Chief Innovation Officer

Innov8rs

At our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, Elisa Farri (Vice President and Co-lead at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) and Gabriele Rosani (Director of Content and Research at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) shared insights from their recent research on this topic.

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Coaching as an enabler to innovation

Wazoku

In a January 2015 post on Artificial Intelligence he references “what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls human history’s Law of Accelerating Returns”. Andy Follows , Aquilae, is a former Tesla and BMW executive, currently running his international automotive finance consultancy with special focus on innovation and coaching.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. – Michael Raynor.

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

We took a closer look at the most important sources of innovation in large companies: The Leadership. Yet, companies around the world are in digital transition and face even larger leadership gaps. The leadership should make sure to be a source for overall drive, vision, and ambition of the organization with regards to innovation.

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100%Open

So reflecting on 2015, it has been an epic year for 100%Open. Now I strongly feel that leadership is a deeply misunderstood concept (see here for example) and I certainly don’t subscribe to the macho image of the heroic leader. Firstly a significant contract with the UK Government and also for the UBS Future of Finance Challenge.

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