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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! presents Big-Bang in Practice: Antifragility, Innovation and Leadership. Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents How to stop employee turnover in the first 90 days. Jim Taggart from Changing Winds blog. It's not easy is it?”.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game?

Harvard Business Review

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Recent research does not support this idea.

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Companies Should Help Veterans Get Skills to Work

Harvard Business Review

While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way. Led by GE, along with partners such as Alcoa and Lockheed Martin, the new Get Skills to Work (GSTW) program convenes manufacturers and educators to prepare and place veterans in long-term careers in advanced manufacturing.

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Twelve Rules for New Grads

Harvard Business Review

Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career. And preparation is an essential prerequisite for innovation. Embrace your weaknesses.

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Lessons from Boston’s Experiment with The One Fund

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. Let me explain. But that took time.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. How could this be?, Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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