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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.
HBR.org ($) - May 21, 2021
It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager
As organizations shift toward more distributed, asynchronous workforces, the traditional role of a middle manager — monitoring productivity, optimizing individual performance, etc. — is becoming increasingly redundant. Instead of simply routing information. …more
MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - 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.
Medium ($) - May 15, 2021
Why Mental Agility is Key for Creative Success
With mental agility, we can adapt to change and find opportunities even in unpredictable times
McKinsey & Company - May 14, 2021
Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility
The dairy industry faces shifting demand and price pressure. Continuous benchmarking processes can help identify emerging areas of excellence and the possibility of higher-impact improvements.
Chief Executive - May 14, 2021
Ram Charan: Are You The CEO You Need To Be Now?
The biggest risk—and opportunity—in your business today? Your leadership, says Ram Charan, one of the world’s top CEO coaches. A guide to what you and your team must do to grab competitive. …more
Bain & Company - May 12, 2021
How Customer-Led Category Management Can Transform Retail
By resetting their commercial models to put customers first, retailers can boost growth and margins.
HBR.org ($) - 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
Medium ($) - May 7, 2021
The Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making
Until a few years ago, the only AI agent capable of strategy making was OpenAI’s multi-agent system. OpenAI Five was capable of playing the complex strategy game Dota2 at superhuman levels. While the OpenAI. …more
HBR.org ($) - 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
Fast Company ($) - May 7, 2021
Every company must be a tech company first and a media company second
To control the fate of your business, resist the temptation to grow dependent on the many intermediaries who’d like to sit between you and your customers.
MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - 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.
strategy+business - Apr 30, 2021
Forces of nature
Understanding how ecosystems grow, thrive, and regenerate can help leaders steer their organization in the future.
Harvard Business Review ($) - May 1, 2021
Eliminate Strategic Overload
I believe that strategic management faces an attractive, back-to-basics opportunity. By simplifying strategy—by selecting fewer initiatives with greater impact—we can make it more powerful. In this article, I describe an easy-to-use framework. …more
Masters of Scale - May 4, 2021
The elusive formula for great hiring, w/Workday’s Aneel Bhusri
Your first hires are your cultural cofounders. And it’s worth your time to get every one right. That’s why Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri personally interviewed his first 500 employees. Today, with 12,500. …more
Harvard Business Review ($) - May 1, 2021
Getting AI to Scale
Don’t try to change everything at once, but do begin with something important.
MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Apr 27, 2021
Creating Valuable (and Trusted) Experiences With Digital Personas
Deepfakes have received much (well-deserved) bad press — but the underlying technology holds plenty of potential for companies to build positive customer experiences.
Medium ($) - 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
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11 Sources of Disruption
A quantitative futurist advises leaders to pay attention to 11 sources of disruption.
McKinsey & Company - Apr 26, 2021
The strategy-analytics revolution
It’s time to bring advanced analytics into the strategy room—here’s why.
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