Fri.Dec 22, 2023

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Are You a “Bottleneck Boss”?

Harvard Business Review

More often than not, a firm that’s losing great employees year after year is being negatively affected by a leader’s bottleneck-style behaviors. These leaders don’t think they’re bottlenecks, but they’re often standing in the way of high-potential employees’ progress. To remove these bottlenecks in businesses, the author outlines the signs of a bottleneck leader and three strategies to delegate responsibilities and allow high-potential employees to take on more ownership: 1) Figure out who your

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Creativity Amid The Chaos: The View From The Drucker Forum

Bill Fischer

Chaos and creativity, are often linked in the hope that out of chaos, new ideas can emerge. We believe this requires significant changes in leadership and organization.

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The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now. Once a company understands its present situation, it can chart a path to creating a truly differentiated offering that can create economic value.

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What’s Next?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Anonymous: What do you think we should do next? Me: It depends. How did you get here? Anonymous: Well, we’ve had great success improving on what we did last time. Me: Well, then you’ll likely do that again. Anonymous: Do you think we’ll be successful this time? Me: It depends.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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ESG Is Under Attack. How Should Your Company Respond?

Harvard Business Review

The so-called “anti-ESG” movement — a loosely defined collection of beliefs and actions aimed at fighting a perceived shift towards “woke” or progressive ideas in society and business — is top of mind for CEOs and other senior executives. But in order to navigate this terrain, leaders need to better understand exactly how ESG or sustainability are being used as a critique, and whether those doing the critiquing are doing so in good faith.

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