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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

The financial and operational rewards for innovation are significant. Innovation requires opportunity recognition, talent, commitment, sacrifice, and risk-taking. improved operational productivity. For example, the research demonstrated that increasing problem-solving freedom among employees decreased product innovation.

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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). Organizational Talent Consulting.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Consider GM as a case study.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.

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Don’t Get Testy with Salespeople

Henman Performance Executive

Certainly, the battery of tests I use would determine if a given sales professional has some of the requisite personality traits for success: high achievement drive, a willingness to overcome obstacles, a competitive attitude, an ability to bounce back from disappointment, and the talent for “reading” people and situations.

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