Wed.Dec 11, 2024

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Why Leadership Teams Fail to Drive Innovation: The Cultural Challenge

Cris Beswick

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, a leadership team’s ability to foster innovation often determines an organisation’s success or failure. Yet, the stark reality is that many senior teams urgently need help creating the cultural conditions necessary for innovation to flourish. Based on extensive work worldwide with CEOs and senior executives, my experience reinforces that leadership team dynamics can either catalyse or crush innovation potential.

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Bliss Investing: Aligning Profit with Purpose for Sustainable Growth

Tullio Siragusa

Bliss Investing: Aligning Profit with Purpose for Sustainable Growth Investments are often seen through a hard, cold financial lens, making the concept of empathy in investing seem out of place. But, as Alicia Castillo Holley, PhD, outlined in a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , it is empathy, compassion, and purpose that form the true foundation of successful, sustainable investing.

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It’s Time for CFOs to Rethink Scenario Planning

Harvard Business Review

As companies navigate todays complex business and geopolitical landscape, CFOs have seen risk management rise to the top of their priorities. Theyre increasingly using scenario planning as a key tool to manage risk and strategically unlock new value-creation opportunities. This involves three approaches: 1) Being rigorous and cross-functional, integrating scenario planning into the companys strategic framework; 2) Being outward looking and externally informed by staying ahead of the curve on reg

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Scaling With Purpose Kit: Creating a Purpose Statement That Guides Growth

The Bliss Business Podcast

Crafting a Purpose Statement That Drives Growth In the latest episode of our Scaling With Purpose series on The Bliss Business Podcast , we tackle the essential topic of creating a purpose statement that not only inspires but also serves as a guiding star for decision-making and growth. What Youll Learn: The 3 key qualities of a great purpose statement: authenticity, actionability, and aspiration Steps to ensure your purpose statement aligns with your organizations values and goals How to make

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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The Irreplaceable Value of Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI

Harvard Business Review

Five ways organizations can codify and foster the skills that will give them a competitive advantage.

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Six Reasons Norway is a Leader in High-Performance Teamwork

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard If you research why certain countries are leaders and others are laggards in high performance teamwork, you quickly see that Norway and thus the Norwegian society has several notable characteristics that contribute to the success of high-performance teams in business and organizations.

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Moving towards the integrated future of Innovation and Business Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

Heading towards 2025 on Innovation and Business Ecosystems integration thinking Where I stand today that moves me to the future Let me provide a really short round up of 2024 from my learning and explaining on innovation ecosystems and specifically integrated business ecosystems. Then I outline some of my plans for 2025 to build out the value of Ecosystems in business.

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The Questions Leaders Need to Be Asking Themselves

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Robert Steven Kaplan, the author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.

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The Rise of the LLM-Native Developer: Navigating the Future of AI-Integrated Development

Planview

As we step into 2025, a new paradigm is emerging in software development: the era of the LLM-native developer. This transformation isnt about replacing developers with AI but redefining their roles. Mastery of large language models (LLMs) will soon become the mark of a standout performera new breed of “10x developer”who excels through collaboration with AI rather than traditional coding prowess alone.

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How to Build Long-Term Social Value

Harvard Business Review

A strategy for succeeding as a business while doing well by your employees.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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How AI Affects Individuals

Faisal Hoque

How do we harness AI’s benefits while protecting ourselves from its capacity to manipulate human behavior? This article explores the profound challenge of harnessing AI’s benefits while protecting against its capacity to manipulate human behavior. It examines three key channels of AI influence – desire engineering , emotional architecture , and choice architecture – and their real-world impacts.