Leadership & Big Data Analytics
“Data analysis is an aid to thinking and not a replacement for it.” –Richard Shillington One of the ideas of the 4th Industrial Revolution is that we’ve entered the age where wisdom is much more valued and impactful than mere isolated knowledge or experience without...
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The Transformation of Human Life
We, humans, overwhelmed with the sea of data that machines identify and produce for us, we intensely focus but have a hard time seeing, even when the thing is right within proximity. There has been quite the AI and big data analytics hype all...
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The Future Workforce and Its Leadership Implications
"For businesses to capitalize on new opportunities, they will need to put talent development and future workforce strategy front and centre to their growth. Firms can no longer be passive consumers of ready-made human capital." ~Future of Workforce Strategy, World...
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Urgent! Need Leaders w/Strategic Thinking & Strategic Planning Skills (Part 2)
Last week we discussed the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning. We also used the example of Airb&b to frame the discussion about strategic thinking. This week, we expand on that post. Specifically, we direct our attention to four core...
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Urgent! Need Leaders w/Strategic Thinking & Strategic Planning Skills (Part 1)
Strategic thinking is not strategic planning. This is a common confusion in organizations. Matter of fact, this confusion is one of the reasons why organizations cannot improve strategic thinking and behave in ways that isolate strategic thinking to just a few people...
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Is it the “leader” or the culture?
"As Peter Drucker, management guru, is attributed with saying, 'Culture eats strategy for breakfast.'” Thinking about the future of organizations, many of us tend to think about succession as a key planning point. We are inclined to think about the leader—who’s going...
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A Better Tribute: Expressing Their Leadership Character
“I prefer that this Memorial Day tribute would last all year long, and not be a tribute of social media postings. I would like a tribute of action and conduct—all year long.” Today, many of us pause to think about sacrifice. We think about our nation’s Veterans (and...
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Collaboration? Easier said than done!
"Even high-performing teams can fail to collaborate because team members may end up having different interpretations about the principal task to be accomplished." “Collaboration? Easier said than done," answered the young leader when prompted about the status of his...
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What Chewbacca Mom & Others Reminded Us…Again!
“Today’s leadership reality is that what happens in one part of the world does not stay there; we’re inextricably connected.” The examples below keep reminding me about the great world we live in. It’s interconnected, fast, and its cycle of complexity exponentially...
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