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Why process is key for financial institutions’ operational excellence

E&Y - May 26, 2021

Why process is key for financial institutions’ operational excellence

Creating a single view of the business through process enables operational changes needed to succeed in a challenging environment.

By Mike Schank
It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager

HBR.org ($) - May 21, 2021

It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager

As organizations shift toward more distributed, asynchronous workforces, the traditional role of a middle manager — monitoring productivity, optimizing individual performance, etc. — is becoming increasingly redundant. Instead of simply routing information. …more

By Brian Elliott
Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - May 20, 2021

Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’

The change-strategy advice commonly given to businesses misses the mark for two-thirds of them.

By B. Tom Hunsaker and Jonathan Knowles
Why Mental Agility is Key for Creative Success

Medium ($) - May 15, 2021

Why Mental Agility is Key for Creative Success

With mental agility, we can adapt to change and find opportunities even in unpredictable times

By Polly Campbell
Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility

McKinsey & Company - May 14, 2021

Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility

The dairy industry faces shifting demand and price pressure. Continuous benchmarking processes can help identify emerging areas of excellence and the possibility of higher-impact improvements.

By Dayan Jayasuriya, Alina Kasumova, Shruti Lal, Ludovic Meilhac, and Andreas Seyfert
Ram Charan: Are You The CEO You Need To Be Now?

Chief Executive - May 14, 2021

Ram Charan: Are You The CEO You Need To Be Now?

The biggest risk—and opportunity—in your business today? Your leadership, says Ram Charan, one of the world’s top CEO coaches. A guide to what you and your team must do to grab competitive. …more

By Ram Charan
How Customer-Led Category Management Can Transform Retail

Bain & Company - May 12, 2021

How Customer-Led Category Management Can Transform Retail

By resetting their commercial models to put customers first, retailers can boost growth and margins.

By Mario Häuptli, Karl Zimmermann, and Marc Antonius
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies

HBR.org ($) - May 12, 2021

A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies

It’s always been challenging to launch new ventures inside an existing business. One way internal startups can overcome some of the disadvantages they face is by seeking out external funding from venture. …more

By Nitin Nohria and Hemant Taneja
The Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making

Medium ($) - May 7, 2021

The Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making

Until a few years ago, the only AI agent capable of strategy making was OpenAI’s multi-agent system. OpenAI Five was capable of playing the complex strategy game Dota2 at superhuman levels. While the OpenAI. …more

By Dr Mark van Rijmenam
High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values

HBR.org ($) - May 11, 2021

High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values

In today’s disruptive marketplace, every organization needs to attract, develop, and retain talent with diverse skills and perspectives. The difference between success and failure will not be in the formulation of job. …more

By Greg Satell and Cathy Windschitl
Every company must be a tech company first and a media company second

Fast Company ($) - May 7, 2021

Every company must be a tech company first and a media company second

To control the fate of your business, resist the temptation to grow dependent on the many intermediaries who’d like to sit between you and your customers.

By Eric Schwartzman
Turbulent Times Demand Dynamic Rules

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - May 11, 2021

Turbulent Times Demand Dynamic Rules

Circumstances can change rapidly in an uncertain world — organizational rules should be designed to change along with them.

By David R. Hannah, Christopher D. Zatzick, and Jan Kietzmann
Forces of nature

strategy+business - Apr 30, 2021

Forces of nature

Understanding how ecosystems grow, thrive, and regenerate can help leaders steer their organization in the future.

By David K. Hurst
Eliminate Strategic Overload

Harvard Business Review ($) - May 1, 2021

Eliminate Strategic Overload

I believe that strategic management faces an attractive, back-to-basics opportunity. By simplifying strategy—by selecting fewer initiatives with greater impact—we can make it more powerful. In this article, I describe an easy-to-use framework. …more

By Felix Oberholzer-Gee
The elusive formula for great hiring, w/Workday’s Aneel Bhusri

Masters of Scale - May 4, 2021

The elusive formula for great hiring, w/Workday’s Aneel Bhusri

Your first hires are your cultural cofounders. And it’s worth your time to get every one right. That’s why Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri personally interviewed his first 500 employees. Today, with 12,500. …more

By Reid Hoffman and Aneel Bhusri
Getting AI to Scale

Harvard Business Review ($) - May 1, 2021

Getting AI to Scale

Don’t try to change everything at once, but do begin with something important.

By Tim Fountaine, Brian McCarthy, and Tamim Saleh
Creating Valuable (and Trusted) Experiences With Digital Personas

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Apr 27, 2021

Creating Valuable (and Trusted) Experiences With Digital Personas

Deepfakes have received much (well-deserved) bad press — but the underlying technology holds plenty of potential for companies to build positive customer experiences.

By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, Neville Dubash, and David Light
Cultural Cohesion

Medium ($) - Apr 28, 2021

It’s Not a Leader’s Job to Motivate

The truth is that employees start out motivated but the work environments they find themselves in suck that motivation out of them. In other words, they come to the job with their. …more

By George Bohan
11 Sources of Disruption

Rotman -

11 Sources of Disruption

A quantitative futurist advises leaders to pay attention to 11 sources of disruption.

By Amy Webb
The strategy-analytics revolution

McKinsey & Company - Apr 26, 2021

The strategy-analytics revolution

It’s time to bring advanced analytics into the strategy room—here’s why.

By Chris Mulligan, Nicholas Northcote, Tido Röder, and Sasha Vesuvala

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