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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. However, for this special edition, why not read them ALL?

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Add in the number of female CEOs at small and mid-sized companies, female upper level managers, and female entrepreneurs, and you can see that we’re actually talking about a large number. Men are great at cooperating. Increasingly, it’s women.

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Bidding for the Next Olympics: Genius or Madness?

Harvard Business Review

There were five finalists in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. They would certainly have had to confront a number of media-created myths, chief among them that the Olympics "cost" the taxpayers billions of dollars. Using London in 2012 as an example, the Opening Ceremony of the Games was fixed for 9:00GMT on July 27, 2012.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. Winning Over Conscious Consumers. B Corps are riding a wave of consumer interest in sustainable companies.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S., Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.