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Inclusive Leadership: Aligning the Different
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Mercer LLC
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There are three key contexts driving the need for ‘inclusive leadership’: 1. Globalization Increasing globalization demands a new global mind-set from leaders, team members and organizations. The ability to engage…
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Is Your Supply Chain Prepared for the Unexpected?
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management City University London Cass Business School
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Supply chain management has become increasingly sophisticated over recent decades with improved financial performance as a result. Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing; sole-source suppliers; outsourcing to low-cost locations; common parts; and centralized…
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How to Be a Customer-intimate Company
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
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Around 20 years ago, academics and consultants Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema identified three ‘value disciplines’ or models followed by top-performing companies: operational excellence, customer-intimacy and product leadership. The second,…
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What’s Love Got to Do with Work?
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania George Mason University
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Love is not a word often found in management literature, although the consensus now recognizes the power of emotions in motivating (or demotivating) people. Daniel Goleman and others have popularized…
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How to Formulate a Winning Strategy
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
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“Strategy is often like desert rain. Before the raindrops leave the desert floor, they evaporate, creating little or no effect below” — George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, The Power of…
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Happiness at Work: How Daily Reminders Improve Employee Morale
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management University of Texas McCombs School of Business Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Research in the past suggested that specifically working at happiness (what can I do today to be happier?) is counterproductive since it focuses the person on what is making him…
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How Best to Juggle Multiple Conversations at Work
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: HEC Montréal Queens University School of Business
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Technology that is supposed to make us more productive only seems to have complicated our task. We may be in an important meeting but know that whoever just sent an…
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Be a Learning Leader
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Henley Business School
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Leaders drive the process of organizational learning and adaptation by providing time and space, granting the freedom to explore and fail, and by encouraging those around them to look at…
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Strategies Companies Are Using to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business
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Progressive corporate leaders have been at the forefront of many societal changes, and climate change is no different. While different surveys show between 62% and 76% of the general public…
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