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Highlighting Our February 2017 Sponsor: Leaders Made Here

Lead Change Blog

We are pleased to have Leaders Made Here as our Lead Change Group sponsor for February 2017! This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. In 2011, he released The Secret of Teams , outlining the key principles that enable some teams to outperform the all the rest.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO. This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn. People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”

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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

For two years (2016 and 2017) Deloitte’s Global Human Capital trends survey has positioned organizational redesign as the number one concern for businesses. In 2016 they termed this the ‘Rise of Teams’ and 2017 ‘The Organization of the Future – Arriving Now’. He founded The ODD Company www.theoddcompany.ie

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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business Review

However, after 2009, despite employers reporting an increasing number of vacancies, the unemployment rate hardly budged, resulting in an outward shift in the Beveridge Curve that persisted through the end of 2017. That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017. project management), specialized skills (e.g.,

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Preparing for the Cyberattack That Will Knock Out U.S. Power Grids

Harvard Business Review

In February 2017, an area of Wyoming was hit by a strong wind storm that knocked down many power lines. For an example of the kind of disruption such an attack could cause, consider the 2011 Japanese tsunami. What’s the backup plan for the backup plan? What happens to our food supply? Our water supply? Our economy?

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

The government’s pro-growth policies and abundant spending only increased corporate interest and multinational expansion plans. We are forecasting the Brazilian economy to recover only by mid-2017, with GDP growing at an average of a mere 1.0% times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).