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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience

Leapfrogging

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. Recognizing the profound effect of culture on every aspect of your organization is the first step toward leveraging it for business success.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

Product innovation from discovery to market is still the biggest drag on industry performance. Currently with narrower vested interests we lock away knowledge that might allow for radical discovery. Both the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry are knowledge-based. Unleashing the talent, changing the cultures.

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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

In fact there's very little rationale to think about history in many cases, except for some hoary old stories about the founding of a company and its emergent culture. Most of our waking, productive time is focused on the now, the current quarter, the next quarter, because that's what we are evaluated on, compensated for.