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It turns out that your organization’s success doesn’t guarantee your tenure as a founder. In fact, it may have just the opposite effect. See how you can beat the odds.

The more that you take care of the needs of others, whether in your employment or not, the more they and others will not only help you on the way to the top, but will applaud your success.

Only when knowledge of the business, behavior change, and leadership are combined, will a change effort feel authentic and will real business change happen.

No matter what your particular view is on delegation, being clear on who is responsible for what and ensuring they have the requisite authority to accomplish that task, is what will ensure your organization will function at its highest efficiency.

Govindarajan explains that adaptive leaders “anticipate change, prepare for it, and often make change happen in the direction they want to go.” Using an example from IBM, he also points out that adaptive leaders make small bets before making big ones.

As we welcome a new year it's the best time to focus on what can be achieved and people who fought for their dreams and achieved their goals even when people said they could not.

Creative imitation is not limited to businesses. Every organization – and probably most importantly government agencies – must now practice creative swiping to achieve tremendous increases in performance.

Every organization desires to grow. But only a handful have a growth policy, let alone a set of explicit growth strategies.

I view Drucker’s consulting practice as confirmation of the marketing principles inherent in “Drucker Marketing,” a term that he never himself used to describe what he recommended in marketing anything.

There are two ways to imitate the innovations of others—namely; (1) developing a "me-too” or copycat offering to compete directly against the originator's innovation and; (2) launching a creative imitation of a rival's success.

The author uses real world examples to show how leaders use Adapting Strategies and Aligning Resources to solve in moments of crisis.

Learning is thinking with other people's ideas. The trick is to associate, adapt, magnify, minify, substitute and rearrange. Ed's Ink by MMN's editorial staff provides you with a unique opportunity learn from business masterminds.