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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. Ford and the automotive manufacturers must shift their thinking from building cars to financing vehicles to providing transportation.

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The Uplifting Wisdom of Fred Smith

CorporateIntel

“Yale taught me to think, and the Marines taught me to do,” notes Smith in shaping his vision and leadership of FedEx, which he founded in 1971. Fred Smith understands leadership by example. Marine Corps commencing in 1966 where he received officer training and served in Vietnam. Photos: Pexels and FedEx.com

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Elevate Your Strategy: Leading Executive Team Offsites for Business Success

Leapfrogging

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

For more on creating conducive settings for strategic discussions, read our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. For guidance on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, read through our resource on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning.

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Risks Can and Should Be Calculated. Here’s the Formula.

Daniel Burrus

Going even further, he is now moving forward with the Boring Company , which moves to transport people in their vehicles underground in train-like fashion, without cluttering the Earth with above ground tracks. An Anticipatory Entrepreneur goes beyond simply improving upon something that already exists.

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Ginger Grant, PhD

Innovation 360 Group

As an Innovation Researcher and Academic Entrepreneur and Activist, Ginger’s passion is creativity in business – the design, development and implementation of narrative gameplans that transform corporate culture, and drive employee engagement and high-performance teams for competitive advantage. Educational Leadership.

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Anwaar Al Shimmari

Innovation 360 Group

She holds as BSc in Architectural Engineering from UAEU and a master degree from AUS in Urban Planning-Built environment as well Transportation Planning. Her role as professional mentor and technical judge in many competitions added another dimension to her experience. Leadership and Coaching. Innovation Assessment.

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