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How Executives Can Use Inter-Companies Social Networks to Effectively Manage knowledge

Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Competitive advantage is sought by many executives, for instance, Grant concentrates on knowledge application, and argues that firms are entities that must apply the knowledge that their employee’s possess in order to enhance competitive advantage. An example of this is when Jamie Diamond left Citigroup to head up J.P. […]

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7 Essentials for New Product Success

Management, Strategy

Patrick Henry, Author, Plan Commit Win: 90 Days To Creating A Fundable Startup A lot has been written about the importance of innovation as it relates to product success. Innovation is important as it relates to intellectual property, product differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage. But just building a better mousetrap does not ensure business success. The Importance of

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Employee Engagement: A CEO’s Tool for Creating, Driving a High-Performance Environment

Management

Mark Royal, Senior Principal, Korn Ferry Hay Group In today’s highly competitive environment in which organizations must optimize every resource—especially talent—employee engagement is a powerful tool for driving performance. Employees who are highly engaged and well positioned for success are better able to deliver more, and organizations that are known for high employee engagement become magnets

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Rethinking the S.W.O.T. Analysis

Strategy

Anyone who’s sat through a strategic workshop at anytime during the past decade will be familiar with the SWOT analysis. Simply put, it stands for Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats and has informed not only planning days and leadership forums but also a large majority of the decisions that executive teams have made regarding the

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Ethics Feeds Innovation

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Self Governance, Strategy

Ethics brings to mind dusty volumes of impenetrable text, heated arguments that go nowhere, and an overbearing concern with political correctness. But my thirty years as an ethics consultant has taught me something different. Ethics is really about releasing the forces of innovation in an organization. The reason for this is simple. To have ethics

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How Executives Can Use Inter-Companies Social Networks to Effectively Manage knowledge

7 Essentials for New Product Success

Employee Engagement: A CEO’s Tool for Creating, Driving a High-Performance Environment

Rethinking the S.W.O.T. Analysis

Ethics Feeds Innovation

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