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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. GM market share fell from 62.6% to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? They cannot dance with employees because they think they are too busy to engage employees. We know everything.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). million per launch. References: Beswick, C.,

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Global Corporate Banking 2016: The Next-Generation Corporate Bank

BCG

In fact, BCG’s most recent Corporate Banking Performance Benchmarking survey—of 300 corporate banking divisions around the world serving the small, midmarket, and large business segments—found a dramatic split between the best and the rest. First, nearly all participants in the study reported increased loan volume but falling margins.

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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. This is a guest post from Marguerite Arnold.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Such high-profile exposure has prompted more companies to view ZBB as a fresh “wonder diet” for achieving radical corporate leanness.

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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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