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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

” Their ideal leader is a person who develops “win-win” relationships and is sensitive to their needs for personal growth and development. Leaders will need to develop skills in negotiation and “win-win” relationships. In return, they feel a responsibility to deliver value back.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. And then, if things don’t work out, they blame HR — despite the fact that they’re in a much better position to assess and develop their own people.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Think Globally, Not Just Digitally

Harvard Business Review

Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. from 2012 to 2014. A “proof of concept” that might have taken six months and a $100,000 to develop can be globally improvised, refined and field tested in a fortnight for only a few thousand dollars.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) After a series of meetings with Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Apple, and Amazon, we decided to develop our own IoT software and hired the people who could help us do it. Should I keep the work in-house, or outsource it?

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A.

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

Harvard Business Review

Others have argued that the rise in skill requirements during this period was driven by changes in technology or outsourcing. domestic labor force each year between 2009 and 2012. .” But while this explanation seems straightforward, it’s not the only possible one.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Rethink outsourcing. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Increase your R&D spending.