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In the hidden job market, the problem is not visibility, it’s clarity
The hidden job market does not reward effort alone. It rewards executives who have done the harder internal work first – clarity about who they are and how consistently they express it....
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Harnessing the power of diversity for innovation
February 21, 2022 • by Juliet Bourke in Human Resources • 6 min read
What are the two common assumptions around diversity of thinking that need to be challenged within organizations?...
Supply chain: cracking down on the bullwhip effect
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We studied companies that have enjoyed longevity of more than 50 years to understand what they do differently. Those that experience healthy long lives demonstrate what we call strategic incumbency....
Mastering strategic agility comes down to learning how to minimize strategic trade-offs
Strategic agility is a difficult concept to unpack as there are so many ingredients to it. Two-thirds of participants in a webinar given by Professor Stéphane J.G. Girod said they considered it...
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