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Studies, playbooks, reports, articles, and practical frameworks from the Institute for Real Growth.

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The Da Vinci Leader: Five Attitudes, Five Behaviors

The self-learning session on the Da Vinci Humanized Growth Leader profile, with a named CMO attached to each of the ten traits.
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The Anticipative Organization

The session on why the organization itself is the biggest blocker to growth, and what an agile, well connected one looks like instead.
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Storytelling Circles and the Seven Building Blocks

The opening session of the program: how to run a story listening circle, and the Growth Study findings each participant scores their own company against.
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Playing Chess and Checkers at the Same Time

A session on running multiple business models at once, and on the two tools marketing can use to have that conversation with finance: the business model canvas and
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Planning and Stakeholder Engagement

The session that pairs a change management model with an influencing toolkit, then asks each participant to pitch their most important stakeholder in 45 seconds.
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Left Brain, Right Brain, and the Heart

The Whole-Brained session on rebalancing analytics, creativity and empathy, with a practitioner's account of what AI can already do to advertising and what it costs.
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Driving Humanized Growth, Driver by Driver

Marc de Swaan Arons walks through the Impact Study findings and the five drivers, with the companies that got each one right and wrong.
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Culture Is a Script, and Scripts Can Be Rewritten

The Open Culture session: why culture is not company DNA, what overperformers do differently, and how to give feedback that people can use.
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Abundance Does Not Always Mean More

The online session on abundant markets: six routes to a wider market definition, what it takes inside the organization, and four companies that grew by deliberately offering less.