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If you value talents and want to have the best employees in your firm, you must start with great recruiting including best #jobpostings
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When leaders expect and support great work, employees respond positively. Taking innovation seriously has real ROI businesswire.com/news/home/2…
If you value creative ideas, must hire people w/ different ways of thinking. People with similar backgrounds will only lead to #GroupThink
Thomas Friedman famously said "Whatever can be done will be done." If you have a great idea, act on it otherwise someone else will soon.
How're those new year resolutions coming? Good #StrategicPlan is much easier to make than implement. Good ideas don't implement themselves.
Try to find out what your customers value most re your category of products and align your capabilities & processes to meet expectations
It's not enough to be one of the best in your industry. You want to be so good that your customers wouldn't consider buying from anyone else
Why do NFL & NBA teams care so much about the draft? They want the best talents to win. Having talented employees is a #competitiveadvantage
Doing thing differently is not a #CompetitiveAdvanage. Your product must help save more, produce more, feel better, look better than others
The ultimate #CompetitiveAdvantage of a company is its ability to learn and to apply that learning to innovate or decisive actions quickly
3 ways to engage your employees for peak performance ivyexec.com/executive-insigh… @IvyExec
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If you don't develop your #CorporateCulture how you wish it to be, it will develop itself and it might not be what you want.
Manifesto sent to CEOs of S&P 500 largest EU corps from CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest private equity firm businessinsider.com/blackroc…

Here is the letter the world's largest investor, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, just sent to CEOs...

Start thinking long term!

businessinsider.com
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changing #CorporateCulture is hard. Can't just give a couple of speeches or change value statement. Must create condition for transformation
#Strategy is as much about what not to do as what to do. If there is no trade off, there is no strategy. U can't be all things to all people
Necessity is the mother of invention. Guess what, you don't innovate, sooner or later, nobody needs you anymore. It's innovate or die.
Creativity is simply coming up with new ideas. Innovation is doing new things. Good ideas don't implement themselves. #StrategyExecution
Success or failure is simply the result of how well we adapt to #change.
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Few of us like to deal with difficult customers. However, difficult customers are a great source of information to help transform a business
If you're too busy to do it right the first time, why might you have time to do it over?
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