The one-year update from: MAY 7, ’12 11:26 PM Stocks to look at: ADP — was: $55, is: $$69.23, or +25.873% CGR Coca-Cola — was: $38.64, is: $42.24, or +9.317% CGR Johnson & Johnson — was: $65, is: $85.75, or +31.923% CGR McDonald’s — was: $97, is: $102.92, or +6.103% CGR Philip Morris International — was: $90, is: $94.26, or […]
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Where are we going? Start a conversation with your leadership team about how the new organization will create value in the future. The place you’re going doesn’t exist yet. You get to invent it. How can we get there? How will the new organization operate? How will it satisfy customers? Which people, processes, and technologies are
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Action step Translate these transformation activities into specific steps your team can use to demonstrate clear leadership, create enthusiasm, and build momentum. Challenge 1: Lead differently Transformation demands that functional leaders demonstrate a new set of skills. Help your team identify what they should do and say differently to help move their organizations forward. Challenge
Innovation is not invention. Innovation is the application of invention in ways that solve new needs. I’m always amazed at how misunderstood this term is…, even though the definition of each is easy to understand: Innovate | verb | • [ no obj. ] make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products: the company’s failure
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Mark Twain on Granularity? “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” It’s a nice quote, and it surely speaks to the use/meaning of “granularity” in the business parlance these days. Many say,
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Def.: a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, esp. by a computer: a basic algorithm for division. “Or, an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Starting from an initial state and initial input (perhaps empty), the instructions describe a computation that, when