CATALYZING
Genuine Leadership, Innovation and Sustainable Profitability™
synovations® periodically publishes our perspectives on critical leadership in our publication, CATALYZING.
Topics range from learning from current and recent engagements, to our views on critical issues and practices. We hope you find them useful.
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International Coach Federation, Singapore Chapter, Interview with Tara Kimbrell Cole Excerpt What's been the biggest shift in your professional life? Personal life? Perhaps it was through my experience of Einstein, with whom I was blessed to spend time as a very young child; passion for that which I do has been a part of who I am for most of my life. Indeed it was Einstein's deep resonance with nature that called me to discover my own, motivating me to leave Manhattan without a destination and for the completely unknown in 1988. This facilitated the biggest shift in my personal and professional life. |
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Making the Case for the Sustainable Development
of DaLat & Lam Dong Province: Exploring the Path to Innovative Solutions, Business Models and Markets Synopsis The challenge facing emerging economies, like Vietnam is to find an alternative path to the conventional industrialization. A review of the business landscape sets the stage for DaLat & Lam Dong province to grasp the opportunity in sustainable development. This is the foundation on which Tara Kimbrell Cole makes the case and then explores how it may be grasped. She contends that the opportunity, in short, is to serve the underserved with sustainable innovative solutions through which commercially viable business models are engaged and local markets are developed. Guidelines of engagement in exploring the path are proposed. Five economic sectors of the underserved are identified as targets. DaLat & Lam Dong province’s unique competitive value is defined. The various channels of development explored in the master planning session are applied as a means to serve the identified underserved markets. Thus structuring a road map through which DaLat and Lam Dong could bring forward their unique value to Vietnam, ASEAN, Asia and the World. |
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Critical Assets of the Twenty-First Century Corporation Overview Despite all the attention that has been given to the subject, a fundamental challenge that exists in Asia is recognizing and realizing the opportunity in human capital. The development of the human beings working in a twenty-first century corporation is absolutely critical for the corporation’s survival. Many senior executives in Asia still believe that the function of human resource department is to handle human resource problems rather than managing one of the company’s most critical assets. Shifting perceptions on this point is essential for Asian corporations continued success. To do so perceptions need to be adjusted. |
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Driving The Impact of Diversity on Share Value Overview Women remain locked in a struggle to achieve equal pay for their equal or sometimes superior contributions. This ’white paper’ proposes that the value placed on women’s productivity can only be recognized and be given equal value with male productivity - when the issues surrounding diversity policies distinctly and directly demonstrate their impact on share value. The main thrust of this paper is to make the point (through supporting research) that some women-friendly policies should be seen as sound business practice because they lead to greater profitability and enhanced shareholder value. |
