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111: Getting Things Done (GTD) for Leaders | with David Allen

Engaging Leader

Clarify outcomes Decide next actions Examples of the Practice (“Tricks”) of GTD For actionable items: Two-minute rule (Dump it, Do it, Delegate it, or Defer it) For nonactionable items: Labeler and one or more filing cabinets (General Reference files, Project Support files, etc. Your brain is for having ideas, not for holding onto ideas.)

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Leaders Should Sweat the Small Stuff

Strategy Driven

Implementation of core strategies has to start at the top – it cannot simply be delegated (see number 2). The executive team is content to delegate execution to others in the organization, thereby isolating themselves from the day-to-day challenges that can impede success. If metrics are used, they drive the wrong behaviors.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. President to visit India twice. It’s not just frothy internet startups that are doing well in India today.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. Review of material, taking notes, seeking supplementary materials and questing to learn additionally must occur. Periodically, the material is reviewed. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business Review

Gayathri Vasudevan , a 2015 “ Entrepreneur of the Year ” in India, is a cofounder of LabourNet Services , which provides training for the unskilled. CEOs of social enterprises need to act as the chief recruiting officer and not delegate hiring, particularly for top positions. “It’s so important,” he says.

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A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which we aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities.

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Leadership Lessons from 10 Wildly Successful People

Harvard Business Review

Here are the highlights from the class of 2015: The novelist Salman Rushdie on productivity: “I’ve always told myself to treat it like a 9-to-5 job…It doesn’t matter whether you’re feeling good that day. You have to know the weeds, to have lived in them, to delegate.

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