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9 Telltale Signs of an Engaging Leader

Engaging Leader

” Interactive (like a sports team’s captain) : focused on outcomes that make a difference for and with others. New technologies make information accessible to everyone. .” Imperial (like a benevolent dictator) : focused on having an impact and making things happen through other people. “I influence you.”

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To Crack the Glass Ceiling, Start with Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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How to Turn Around Nearly Anything

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

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Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved

Harvard Business Review

And the services they provide do keep improving (along with the prices, of course, but that''s mainly sports fans'' fault ). The first CableCARDs came out in 2004; since then the FCC has issued repeated rules changes aimed at getting the things to catch on. Customers Strategy Technology'

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

He's not only one of the world's best big-wave surfers but he also created an entirely new category within the sport called tow-in surfing. So Laird gathered some friends and used jet skis to transform surfing into a team sport. But as a growth strategist, I really respect his ability to create a new category within his sport.

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The CEO of Ciena on Surviving an Industry Collapse

Harvard Business Review

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.