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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Cultural agility is vital because, with over 60 global society cultures identified and numerous variations in regions within the national cultures, it is virtually impossible to be experienced in every situation. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Tell Stories.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

I myself wrote admiringly about the firm’s practices with respect to venturing in an article that was published in 2006. The internal world comes to matter more than what is going on outside the boundaries of the company and it just sort of loses its edge. Can anyone catch the cell phone king?

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.