70 Ways to Transform Your Culture
How can you shift your organization’s culture? This is a critical question to answer if you want to survive and evolve as a company.
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Proximity Powers the Future of Work
Has COVID pushed us toward a new era of work? Of all the painful effects of it, might it push us to a world in which success at work is judged by merit rather than status? Amidst a great employment reshuffling and a shortage of talented laborers, employers are updating their hiring standards, and employees
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Your Company as an Ecosystem
You can always feel the difference between city streets that were designed from the bottom up versus the top down. For example, when I visited the Old City district in Baku, Azerbaijan, I noticed a marked contrast between the tightly twisted serpentine streets, lined with the most unusual shops and restaurants, compared to the squared-off
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Netflix Drop: The Downside of Platform Models
This week, Netflix shares plunged 35% in a single day after Tuesday’s report that the company lost subscribers for the first time since 2011. Overall, the stock price is down 40% this year. It’s an unexpected turn of events for the company formerly known as the “king of streaming” and a disruptive shock to the
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FLOOW2 Creates a Collaborative Ecosystem for Dutch Healthcare
One of my favorite things about the work I do is having the opportunity to interact with companies in so many different industries. Last week, I gave a speech to WSP Golder, one of the largest civil engineering consulting firms with 55,000 consultants, nearly 25,000 of which are focused on earth and the environment. They
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Was ‘The Slap’ the Right Move? Three Alternative Strategic Plays
It’s safe to say most of us have seen it by now. Even if you missed the Academy Awards this year, you’ve likely watched the news, social media memes, or a video replay of the jaw-dropping Oscars moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss.
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The Theory of the Firm: Will Individual Companies Exist 50 Years From Now?
Why do companies exist? British economist Ronald Coase’s 1937 Theory of the Firm tells us that the existence of a firm is necessary when the costs of managing coordination internally are less than the transaction costs in the external marketplace.
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How We Power: Trends & Challenges in the Energy Industry
Across many industries, the pandemic whisked the world along in an upheaval of transition. Ready or not, digital transformation pointed the way to survive, if not excel, in a suddenly virtual world.
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Switch Your Ecosystem
For an organization, selecting which business ecosystem to participate in carries weighty consequences. It can shape the core of your identity and lead to a leap in competitiveness if you do it well.
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Ecosystems in Business: Where to Start with Tiffani Bova
The nature of competition in business is changing. What has historically consisted of company-to-company rivalry has evolved into a struggle between competing ecosystems to gain supremacy. Business ecosystems consist of two or more partner companies who agree to combine their assets, capabilities, markets, and talent pools to create and deliver new value.
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