Thought Leadership
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Crowdsourcing: Fresh Thinking or Online Fad?
Results are encouraging, but long-term effectiveness remains uncertain.
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Meditate for More Profitable Decisions
It’s a practice rooted in Hinduism and adopted by beatniks seeking spiritual guidance. Now evidence shows meditation can improve business decisions and save your company from expensive investment mistakes
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How to Address Willful Blindness
Margaret Heffernen, the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book Award nominee defines ‘willful blindness’ and how to address it in your organization – and in your life
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Status: When and Why It Matters
Status plays a key role in everything from the things we buy to the partnerships we make. Professor Daniel Malter explores when status matters most
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Uzma Khan: Making Hard Choices Easier for Customers
Catchy phrases aren’t always the best way to help potential customers make decisions
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The Economist: Thriving in the Age of Digital Media
With the advent of digital media, traditional print media publishers have struggled to survive. The Economist, however, has bucked this trend and evolved to thrive on both print and digital media platforms. In this interview with Andrew Rashbass, former CEO of The Economist, we learn how the publication has come out stronger despite the disruption in print media
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Innovation Requires More Than Systems and Tools
Broad based engagement in innovation has to be carefully nurtured and actively monitored
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Forgiveness as a Business Tool
Forgiveness can make us a better person but does it make a better leader? An eye for an eye for an eye for an eye…ends in making everyone blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Business Models for an Era of Innovation Glut
It seems that innovation today goes to the company that simply says that its product or service is “innovative.” The real problem for the client or consumer, is that each supposedly new innovation has a “me too” look. As this author writes, knowing your market and differentiating sharply on value will enable your product or service to stand out in the crowd. He describes the steps to take in this article
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A Peek Behind the Curtain
No one has been willing to share private equity data – until now
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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Reinventing Capitalism
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of E.L. Rothschild and Co-Chair of the Henry Jackson Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism, believes that capitalism is not a lost cause. It only needs long-term thinking and a more human face