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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…
Welcome to The Outliers Inn: Where Failure Is a Launchpad and Redundancy Is a “Plot Twist!” Greetings, fellow misfits and spreadsheet-scarred consultants! Welcome to another delightfully dysfunctional episode of The Outliers Inn, the podcast where career detours are not only expected—they’re celebrated. This episode’s theme? “Falling Up”—because sometimes, getting fired, downsized, or reorganized out of…
Benjamin Taylor, the Managing Director of RedQuadrant, engaged in a thought-provoking dialogue with Joseph Paris, delving into the nuanced intricacies of organizational evolution and improvement within the public sector landscape. Drawing from their wealth of experiences and insights, Taylor and Paris underscored the paramount importance of democratizing knowledge accessibility and fostering collaborative group dynamics as…
This article is provided courtesy of CERM Risk Insights, a content partner of the Operational Excellence Society. What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question. Each tradition has a different take, but all agree: The good life is more than just…
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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…
Surveyed executives increasingly point to changes to trade policy and relationships as a disruptive force they expect to affect the world economy, their countries, and their companies. The survey data were collected one week before the Iran–Israel conflict began. This article and the data and analysis it sets out should be treated as a perspective…
