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Part of Leadership is to Create a Crisis

Destination Innovation

Under his leadership, Alcoa streamlined and improved operations. By tying safety performance to managerial evaluations, he emphasized the accountability of leadership in maintaining a safe work environment. He died in 2020 aged 84. He once said, “Part of leadership is to create a crisis.”

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Dimension 1 for successful innovation: Leadership and commitment

Exago

Part of our guide to innovating successfully in 2020, the first must-have dimension of any winning innovation programme is the leadership vision and commitment of a company's innovation leader. The post Dimension 1 for successful innovation: Leadership and commitment appeared first on Exago.

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Ignite Your Leadership Journey: Embrace Emotional Intelligence for Success

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Emotional intelligence has become a cornerstone in the realm of leadership development, recognized for its pivotal role in enhancing a leader’s effectiveness. Conflict Management Effective leaders use EQ to resolve disputes constructively.

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Hindsight is 2020: The Hindsight Bias

Idea to Value

As you can imagine, this has a large impact on people’s ability to make decisions, especially when it comes to predicting the outcome of unpredictable ideas and innovations which are yet unproven. Let us take an example: the rapid rise of Tesla Motors share value in 2020.

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Business Models Changing the Landscape of Growth and Innovation

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President, Innovationedge

She will lead you on a journey through business model basics and describe how companies are taking innovation strategy to the next level, while tackling the current challenges of talent management and innovation fatigue. January 28, 2020 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM GMT.

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What Impact Did 2020 Have on Innovation?

InnovationManagement

2020 revealed our fragility and our capacity for adaptation, and what IdeaScale's 2021 State of Crowdsourced Innovation report reveals is improved innovation capability from faster implementation rates to more engaged leadership. The post What Impact Did 2020 Have on Innovation?

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How To Make Work Work for Women in Tech and Leadership

Business and Tech

Lack of representation in leadership Women in the IT industry are confronted with an imbalance that can be incredibly discouraging — they make up only 26% of the entire workforce. Female representation in the tech leadership space is still alarmingly low, often ranging between 15-25% (depending on the data set).

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. January 23, 2020 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation?