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Futurism and understanding emerging business trends

Futurism: Understanding Emerging Business Trends

Being a futurist means paying attention to new patterns and trends and developing possible scenarios for the future. What is the best way to build the future smartly, thoughtfully, and effectively?

Subtly toxic cultures can impair organizational effectiveness

Fix Your Subtly Toxic Culture to Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Learn two major tactics that can effectively address subtly toxic cultures, prevent important decision delays help improve an organization’s effectiveness.

What is Organizational Alignment?

What is Organizational Alignment & How Can it Support Strategic Goals?

The best organizations are well-oiled machines. Using the cube model as an alignment tool can keep your business running at optimal efficiency and productivity.

Strategic Mindedness - Seeing the Forest Through The Trees

Strategic Mindedness: Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

Six ways strategic mindedness or acting and thinking strategically, will improve your business outcomes and strengthen your leadership abilities

Understanding and optimizing your business model often requires navigating the currents.

Business Model Optimization: Navigating the Currents

Learn how understanding and optimizing your business model can help you define your competitive positioning, understand decision rights and work more efficiently.

Business leaders discuss the difference between problem solving and decision making

The Difference Between Problem Solving and Decision Making

An explanation of the differences between problem solving and decision making, and when each should respectively be applied.

Make intentional organization choices during crisis-driven changes.

Crisis-Driven Change: Making Intentional Organizational Adjustments

What does the next step beyond crisis-mode look like for an organization – and how do companies adjust for the long-haul? As with any significant change to an organizational ecosystem, alignment is key.

Executive considering how to maintain organizational alignment during difficult times

Maintaining Organizational Alignment in Difficult Times

What is most important in structuring your organization for the post-crisis future? A successful comeback requires strong, positive, transparent leadership and good communication.

Leader uses three must do's to achieve successful organization design

Three “Must-Do’s” to Ensure Successful Organization Design

If you manage organization design efforts as projects that require prioritization, focus and collaboration, you have a greater chance of success, as these factors are within your control as a leader.

Riding in the rain compared to organizational strategies for new times

Riding in the Rain – New Organizational Strategies for New Times

Moving forward, the success of businesses will be influenced by how well they can adapt, replacing old organizational strategies with the ability to react to quickly changing conditions.