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How to Tell If Your Business Model Is Truly Sustainable

BCG - Apr 9, 2021

How to Tell If Your Business Model Is Truly Sustainable

Throughout the pandemic, companies worked to rapidly adjust their business models to be more resilient and competitive in the face of uncertain economic recovery. As companies now build back, how can they. …more

By David Young and Marine Gerard
Are You Ready to Lead Work Without Jobs?

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Apr 8, 2021

Are You Ready to Lead Work Without Jobs?

We’re moving toward a system of work design that will profoundly change the roles of organizational leaders.

By John Boudreau and Jonathan Donner
Campbell’s Soup & How To Design A Category Breakthrough In The Roaring 2020s

Medium ($) - Apr 8, 2021

Campbell’s Soup & How To Design A Category Breakthrough In The Roaring 2020s

For 30 years, the business sold little else besides produce, canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, condiments, minced meats, and of course, soups. Business was good, but there was nothing “radically different” about these. …more

By Nicolas Cole
The secret recipe for organizational culture is no recipe

strategy+business ($) - Apr 8, 2021

The secret recipe for organizational culture is no recipe

Culture emerges from a variety of ingredients within your organization, and cookie-cutter approaches won’t get it right.

By Eric J. McNulty
It’s time for businesses to chart a course for reinforcement learning

McKinsey & Company - Apr 1, 2021

It’s time for businesses to chart a course for reinforcement learning

An advanced artificial intelligence technique is quickly becoming accessible to organizations as a tool for speeding innovation and solving complex business problems.

By Jacomo Corbo, Oliver Fleming, and Nicolas Hohn
Are you building employee capabilities across these four critical areas?

McKinsey & Company - Jan 25, 2021

Are you building employee capabilities across these four critical areas?

Leaders have the potential to capture value and drive impact at levels previously thought unimaginable by building individual capabilities across four quadrants.

By Alexander DiLeonardo, Taylor Lauricella, Laura Pineault, and Bill Schaninger
Why the first five minutes of a meeting shape its outcome

strategy+business ($) - Jan 26, 2021

Why the first five minutes of a meeting shape its outcome

The best meetings are a group improvisation, a chance for co-creation. Much of the expertise and talent needed to do the “work” of the meeting is already in the heads of the. …more

By Elizabeth Doty
It’s time to debunk the ‘pipeline problem’ once and for all

Fast Company - Jan 25, 2021

It’s time to debunk the ‘pipeline problem’ once and for all

For the first episode of the series I spoke with Porter Braswell, CEO and cofounder of Jopwell, an HR tech platform that helps diverse students and professionals unlock opportunities for career advancement.. …more

By Kathleen Davis
Even overs: The prioritization tool that brings your strategy to life

Medium - Jan 11, 2021

Even overs: The prioritization tool that brings your strategy to life

… if everything is a priority, nothing is priority. As you’ve no doubt found from your own experience, the “we can have it all” mindset fails frequently as we repeatedly come up. …more

By Jurriaan Kamer
Practicing strategy in an uncertain world

strategy+business ($) - Jan 21, 2021

Practicing strategy in an uncertain world

A modern strategy that works will require leaders to learn new skills and apply new tools. Here’s a primer for a refreshed approach.

By David Lancefield
To see the future more clearly, find your blind spots

Strategy + Business ($) - Jan 7, 2021

To see the future more clearly, find your blind spots

After being bombarded with disruption in 2020, executives can better prepare for the next crisis by considering new perspectives… The ability to detect early signals of change and connect the dots in. …more

By Eric J. McNulty
How Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Jan 4, 2021

How Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes

Employees bring a diversity of moods to work each day. Trying to smooth them out into one shared mood isn’t always the best idea… Leaders can no longer avoid taking an active. …more

By Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Christina Bradley, and Lindred Greer
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

Harvard Business Review ($) - Jan 1, 2021

Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four. …more

By Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino, and Metin Aksoy

Oxford Handbooks ($) - Sep 1, 2015

How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities – Oxford Handbooks

How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens. …more

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Matthew Bird, Ethan S. Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli
The Essence of Strategy Is Now How to Change

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Dec 17, 2020

The Essence of Strategy Is Now How to Change

When environments are complex and dynamic, strategy is about adaptability… Understanding when and how to change is the essence… Tools that help you spot the opportunities and challenges that exist or are. …more

By B. Tom Hunsaker and Jonathan Knowles

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