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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

In premodern times, as the great cathedrals of Europe were constructed, the master builder held all of the necessary knowledge in his head and directed huge teams, but the projects were not collaborative. The shift is from that of a master-builder, as Gawande describes in The Checklist Manifesto , to a more collaborative mindset.

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Diversity means different things to different people. Demographic diversity is tied to our identities of origin — characteristics that classify us at birth and that we will carry around for the rest of our lives. Experiential diversity is based on life experiences that shape our emotional universe. Diversity is dynamic.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. In contrast, a True North Group is a two-way street, in which members help each other and become both givers and receivers of constructive feedback and ideas.

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Decoding The Truth Of Leading Multi-Generational Workforces

Tanveer Naseer

Indeed, the almost nomadic-like mobility that is often ascribed to Millennials has also been refuted to relate less to a generational value/behavioural construct as it is simply reflective of the attitude seen in every generation at the start of their careers. 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. & & Spreitzer G.M. 4) Conger J.A. Kolb D.A. &

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