Posts by George Veth
A Step Toward Making Your Company More Sustainable
One model that holds great promise for sustainability is the circular economy (CE) — instead of digging up materials, using them once, and then throwing them away, companies in a CE recapture the enormous volume of resources in their value chain in order to use them again and again.
Read MoreRiding out the wave of disruption
In an era when the pace of technological disruption is rapidly transforming industries — think of streaming services challenging cable, ride-sharing apps versus taxicabs, or electric versus hybrid cars — both incumbents and new entrants must predict how consumers will respond to innovative offerings. A new mathematical model helps incumbent firms forecast consumer response to…
Read MoreDashboard–ing!
Do you have a dashboard that brings clarity to your organization?
Read MoreContent Curation
Start making sense—choose curated content.
Read MoreDon’t Let the Short-Termism Bogeyman Scare You
The author argues that concerns about the perils of short-termism—and support for measures that would insulate corporate leaders from the outside pressures that allegedly make them myopic—are long on alarming rhetoric and short on empirical evidence or economic logic.
Read MoreIt’s Time to Replace the Public Corporation
Over the past 40 years … the fitness of the public corporation has been called into question. Critics charge that in today’s far more heavily traded capital markets, the model increasingly incentivizes executives to manage in tiny, short-term windows, with an eager eye on their stock-based compensation and a fearful one on activist hedge funds.
Read MoreThe Engine 2 Imperative: New Business Innovation and Profitable Growth under Turbulence
Amid new forms of competitive differentiation and shifting business boundaries, the potential to build innovative, next-generation businesses at scale has never been greater … An increasing share of the most successful sustained value creators’ market value growth now comes from the future prospects of major new Engine 2 businesses that create internal entrepreneurship and leverage…
Read MoreThe Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems
Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces… This brief article introduces the concept of workforce ecosystems and discusses how they can help managers rethink the way they align their business and workforce strategies.
Read MoreThe myth of change management
If market leaders want to retain their competitive edge, they need to value adaptability over efficiency, become highly skilled in the practices of strategic discovery, and remember there really is nothing more useless than doing the wrong thing right!
Read MoreThis CEO believes it’s time to embrace idealogical diversity and AI can help
HR teams can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure candidates with different world views receive fair opportunities.
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