by CorpU | Sep 3, 2020 | Organizational Learning
In 1958, the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 was 60 years. Today, that number is 10, and this rapid pace of change shows no sign of slowing any time soon. In addition to the accelerating pace of change, work is more complex than ever before;...
by CorpU | Oct 16, 2019 | Business Innovation
The world of business is increasingly turbulent. And as the pace of technological change accelerates, organizations must learn to see signals sooner and — importantly– learn to act faster than rivals upon those insights. Charles Schwab did so when it...
by CorpU | Oct 9, 2019 | Business Innovation
In the mid-2000s, RadioShack was so focused on serving a growing population of smartphone users that it failed to see it was alienating its loyal electronic hobbyist client base. Those hobbyists began shopping elsewhere, and, when corporations like AT&T and Apple...
by CorpU | Oct 4, 2019 | Business Innovation
In a study of 135 multinational firms over an eight-year period, vigilant organizations had 200% higher growth in market capitalization and were 33% more profitable than their vulnerable rivals.1 This field study built on an earlier Harvard Business Review assessment...
by CorpU | Sep 13, 2019 | Positive Leadership
A family member had an emergency and I spent a lot of time with him in the hospital. The experience was not pleasant. Most of our interactions with the doctors suggested a lack of caring. They seemed stressed or withdrawn, and in one case, deeply abusive. Given...
