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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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2011 Most Ethical Companies

Leading in Context

Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies 2011 at Ethisphere.com organizes the mostethical companies by industry and country. You may choose to rank based on Trust, Ethical Leadership, Innovation, Revenue, Advertising Spending or Industry.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” She observes that power that doesn’t produce tangible results is pointless.

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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem.

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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2011

Leading Blog

Lead with Purpose : Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself by John Baldoni. Creative People Must Be Stopped : 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying) by David A Owens. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2011

Leading Blog

Elephant in the Room : How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations by Diana McLain Smith. The Innovator's Manifesto : Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth by Michael Raynor. Advocacy : Championing Ideas and Influencing Others: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others by John A.

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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

Mike Cardus

With the end of the year approaching, this week is a great to share some of my favorites of 2011. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles 2011. The challenge is determining what works within organizations is complex. What about 2011 inspired you to write and develop a stronger thought leadership in your work?