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Why a Growth Strategy Might Miss the Point

I am complicit in choreographing leadership summits and national sales meetings titled, Fit for Growth, Go for Growth and Excel. The classical marketing literature holds that growth is not a strategy but the outcome of one.

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A Revolution in Quebec's Health Network

Download the recent white paper on the Quebec Health Network by Alain Gilbert.

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Single Studies Are A Fool's Paradise and A Marketer's Dream (or Nightmare)

Individual research studies volley across the landscape of any debate like tennis balls at Wimbledon. Opposing positions inevitably find credible studies supporting their point of view...on the exact same topic! If you follow any debate on social media sites, you will remark how comments quickly degenerate into verbal melees and slugfests. It's not only unproductive...it's nuts!

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The Six (Politically Incorrect) Rules of Entrepreneurship

In the mid-1970’s, Macrae published an article in The Economist, proposing that people working in corporations should behave more like entrepreneurs, that is, with creativity, innovation, risk-taking, and personal accountability. In 1985 Pinchot and Pinchot coined the term intrapreneur to describe someone working with an entrepreneurial attitude in a corporate environment.

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Intrapreneurship: The Lost Grail of Innovation

Long before the term globalization entered our daily language, thought-leaders such as Peter Drucker predicted that this phenomenon would require corporations to take on a different attitude and skill set for success. In the mid-1970’s, Macrae (1976) writing in The Economist, proposed that the people working in corporations should behave as if they were entrepreneurs, that is, in a manner that fostered creativity, innovation, risk-taking, competitiveness, and personal accountability.

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Why is it so difficult to change Just One Thing?

Have you ever noticed how tough it is to change even one thing in your life? No sooner have you taken the first few steps than something always intervenes to sabotage the effort. Every January 1st, millions of people resolve to change some element of their lives: To exercise, to lose weight, to follow a budget or stop drinking, etc. In the vast majority of cases, these efforts are usually short lived and people return to their old patterns. Why is that?

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Stories Bring Data To Life With a Big Payoff

Data and information without a story is like a brick wall without mortar. The spaces between the metrics where people really make decisions are critical to understanding the truth. The payoff is huge: Resources spent on things that work, less wasted time, fresh ideas for innovation…and much more.

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5 Ways To Build Your Strategic Plan For Competitive Advantage

Over the last 20 years or so, we've run a lot of strategic planning sessions with clients in a variety of sectors including Pharma, med-tech, transportation, telecom, hospitality, services, and even not-for-profits. Regardless of industry, we have found that five things separate successful plans from those that keep coming back each year having accomplished little of what had been planned.

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The Biggest Barrier to Innovation is in Your Inbox

The Biggest Barrier to Innovation is in Your Inbox

  • October 22, 2016
  • Leadership Insights

Here we explore the phenomenon of ignoring or ceasing communication with an individual without explanation, termed ghosting.

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Stories Bring Data To Life With a Big Payoff

Stories Bring Data To Life With a Big Payoff

  • October 6, 2016
  • Leadership InsightsPsychmentation

Stories Bring Data To Life With a Big Payoff. Next time someone presents you with data, ask them…”What’s the story behind this data?” The answer might surprise you.

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5 Ways To Build Your Strategic Plan For Competitive Advantage

5 Ways To Build Your Strategic Plan For Competitive Advantage

  • January 17, 2016
  • Leadership Insightslist

Strategic plans should be developed with great care, deliberation, and a thorough understanding of your company and where you want to go as an organization. We share 5 ways to build your strategic plan for competitive advantage.

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Jung’s Synchronicity Gains Support from Quantum Physics

Jung’s Synchronicity Gains Support from Quantum Physics

  • November 24, 2015
  • Leadership Insights

Legendary psychologist and co-founder of Psychoanalysis, Carl Jung, proposed that the Universe didn’t operate solely along the lines of cause-and-effect, but rather, that there was a secondary operating principle that he referred to as Synchronicity.

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Traditional Job Interviewing Yields Poor Results

Traditional Job Interviewing Yields Poor Results

  • November 23, 2015
  • Leadership Insights

Traditionally structured job interview is in big trouble when it comes to identifying great people. Here are 5 basics for the world of job interviews.

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The Myth of Motivation

The Myth of Motivation

  • November 19, 2015
  • Leadership InsightsThelisis

For business people, motivation is the key to the Holy Grail of employee engagement, the process by which people connect their talents to the passion, enthusiasm and drive for fulfilling the organization’s goals.

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