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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. After all, I have been there — I owned and operated a storefront business and served as an executive for organizations of various types throughout my career. I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. To date, change management has not been based on a data-driven model.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Ongoing project assessment of changes taken with defined early indicators. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself."

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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Like looking at a year-in-review photo montage on your social media feed, forgotten projects that seemed all-consuming at the moment appear with a new perspective. Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

General Motor’s announcement that it plans to idle five North American factories and cut 14,000 jobs has sparked much discussion in the media and outrage in Washington. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Alistair Berg/Getty Images. government. That is what GM is trying to do.