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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Renewable energy in electricity generation. This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. Entrepreneurial communities can incubate nascent technologies and ventures through accelerator programs and crowdfunding. Electrical vehicles in transportation.

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. We also intend to continue our discussion of providing support for ideas not directly aligned with Geneca by developing partnerships with incubators in Chicago.

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Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models

Harvard Business Review

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. We will be writing more about these pioneers in our blog posts throughout 2011.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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An Astronaut’s View Of The Power Of We

Tanveer Naseer

As a fighter pilot during the Cold War, I trained for years to fight the Russians, but on April 4, 2011, I stood at the base of a Soyuz rocket named Gagarin , in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight. To learn more about Ron’s work, visit his website at orbitalperspective.com.

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