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Summary: Designing the executive team is one of the most consequential choices a CEO can make. It determines how the enterprise allocates resources, resolves trade-offs, pivots in the face of unforeseen challenges, and moves at speed. Yet its composition is often one of the least deliberate. Vanity titles, reporting lines, and inherited structures may shape the…
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It can cut decision-making time from days to minutes and dramatically improve results. Summary: Over the past few decades, advances in information technologies have allowed firms working to optimize their supply chains to move from decision-making on the basis of intuition and experience to more automated and data-driven methods, which has increased efficiency and reduced…
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Summary: Most leaders enter high-stakes conversations armed with rehearsed arguments and rebuttals to anticipated objections—mindsets that unknowingly blind them to breakthrough insights and put their relationships at risk. The “Curiosity Check,” a rapid, pre-conversation diagnostic, helps leaders shift from defensive certainty to productive curiosity. Before commercial pilots push back from the gate, they complete a comprehensive…
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Summary. The huge uncertainties unleashed by President Trump’s tariff war has made business planning almost impossible. To cope, managers need to take stock of the challenges. They should also take steps to better ride out the gyrations and prepare for what may lie beyond them. These steps include: make sure your organizations are prepared with country-of-origin…
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In an age when innovation is key to business success and growth, you’ve likely come across the term “design thinking.” Perhaps you’ve heard it mentioned by a senior leader as something that needs to be utilized more, or maybe you’ve seen it on a prospective employee’s resume. While design thinking is an ideology based on…
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Summary. As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers. Companies such as Walmart, Tyson Foods, Koch Industries, Maersk, Siemens, and Unilever are using AI tools to swiftly find…
