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Strategy as Learning
By Willie Pietersen
This article will lay out a practical leadership process for creating an adaptive enterprise by mobilizing a dynamic cycle of four steps: learn, focus, align, and execute. These steps build on one another and are repeated to create a dynamic cycle of renewal that I call Strategic Learning…
The leadership [...]
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The most important aspect of the Chinese economy today is its rapid changes. The changes are propelled by the Chinese entrepreneurs. This essay is an attempt to understand who the entrepreneurs are, the environment in which they work, whether the dynamic changes will continue and what policies can be proposed to improve the [...]
By Willie Pietersen
This article will lay out a practical leadership process for creating an adaptive enterprise by mobilizing a dynamic cycle of four steps: learn, focus, align, and execute. These steps build on one another and are repeated to create a dynamic cycle of renewal that I call Strategic Learning…
The leadership [...]
Lessons on leadership from India: Focus on creative growth, not shareholder value
By Michael Useem
Indian and Western business leaders preside over demanding worlds. Both bring a vision of where they want to take their enterprise, both are called on to make timely decisions, and both use much the same management skill set. Yet at the same time, Indian and Western executives have evolved distinct leadership styles that, in India’s [...]
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By John Mullins
The evidence indicates that the vast majority of business plans raise no money. Of those ventures that are financed, many if not most will fail. What’s wrong with this picture?
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A new age: putting people first
This is a white paper from the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement conducted at the Medill School at Northwestern University.
In this paper, readers will learn that post-recession economics are paving the way for new approaches to employee engagement and business productivity. The emergence of social media, an increasing need for transparency, and labor [...]
By Roger Sant
Our world is changing and we need to change with it or risk getting left behind. Roger Sant, Vice President at Maritz Research argues that the way we go about measuring and managing customer experiences we need to transform – and suggests ways to do so.
The case for change
Customer experience management is about [...]
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By Natalie Slawinski and Tima Bansal
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Accounting for nature: The case for corporate ecosystem valuation
By Mikkel Kallesoe
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Flag-waving patriotism. Fine for football – but is it good for international trade?
By Simon Groves
The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrates that patriatism is alive and well throughout the world, and the images of ecstatic – some would say fanatical – supporters urging their national teams to victory, not to mention the constant deafening barrage of the now world famous (or should that be infamous?) vuvuzelas, still resonate [...]
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