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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Yet, as 2016 starts we all can look back and see that this was no story at all.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Many felt leadership was over-spending on overhead costs like R&D,product development and headquarters personnel. That will create some great partner bonuses in 2016!

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Recognizing Excellence in Innovation Management: ISPIM Grand Prize 2017

Innovation Excellence

This will be the third competition, building on the highly successful 2015 and 2016 events, won by the US Department of Energy and Orange respectively.

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Why McDonald’s and Apple Investors Should Be Very Wary

Adam Hartung

The company had 7 straight months of revenue declines, and leadership was predicting the trend would continue. He also closed 700 stores in 2015 , and 500 in 2016. McDonald’s stock languished around $94/share from 8/2014 through 8/2015 – but then broke out to $112 in 2 months on investor hopes for a turnaround.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

In this report, they surveyed 614 global board professionals from a total of 50 countries during the period covered from November 2015 through to February 2016 and then published in February 2016. It is struggling to adjust to all that is entering their world.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

What is needed is a new strategic framework that serves both the current, increasingly competitive, situation as well as providing a strategic path through an uncertain future. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry.

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Innovation: How to Recruit and Retain Top Millennial Talent

Idea to Value

However, the Pew Research Center specifically delineates Millennials as people ages 18-34 in 2015. [2] Census population estimates , the Pew Research Center stated in a April 2016 article that Millennials (who now number at 75.4 million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9

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