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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. T HE contemplation of character has engaged great minds reaching back to Confucius, Aristotle, and Plato.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Local crime increases after public sporting events. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. They were basically self-taught with a well developed love of reading. Best Leadership Books of 2012. Blog Post ).

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Creating Teams

Strategy Driven

This concept is commonly understood by sports teams and the military. Boot Camp for the military and pre-season workouts for sports teams are the norm. Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. This is different than in the world of sports.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” the fictional star couldn’t find anyone to share his excitement about his new job, a developer for GE.

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Think Small in Olympic Sponsorship

Harvard Business Review

As global companies look to Asian markets for future growth, the London 2012 Games could be where they discover new sponsorship targets. Since sports stars have enduring popularity, sponsors can leverage their fame beyond the Olympics. Sports transcend the various divisions that exist in a society.

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MOOCs Won’t Replace Business Schools — They’ll Diversify Them

Harvard Business Review

The nine courses consisted of four that introduce the MBA core — Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Operations Management — as well as Gamification and the Global Business of Sports. For comparison, Executive MBA programs in 2012 only attracted an average of 14% foreign students. That number drops to 23% in BRICS countries.