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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Shifting Assumptions and Perceptions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new marketplaces, acquiring new technologies, and leveraging scale and size. Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility.

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Why Travel and Living Abroad Prepare You for Consulting

Tom Spencer

Have you ever felt guilty about travelling extensively? Have you ever wished that the money spent traveling could somehow pay dividends? Well, I believe it can pay dividends, so you shouldn’t feel guilty about your past and future travel. But travelling also nurtures and requires key traits that are present in a good consultant.

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How to Create an Exponential Mindset

Harvard Business

While others have written about how to design exponential strategies and organizations, I want to focus here on how to create an exponential mindset. Unless you are conscious and diligent, you can end up with a strategy that looks digital (i.e. No strategy is static. achieves accelerating returns). Insight Center.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. Digital culture: Industrial businesses and digital businesses operate with completely different principles. The industrials must build a digital culture based on concepts like lean, agile, simplicity, responsiveness, and speed.

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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 technology strategy focused on agency-driven investments and strict control over the internally developed technologies. Adapting to change.