Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance. Building this ability takes practice.

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Wilde Succession Emotional Intelligence Stress 266

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Many students voted for the first scenario.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

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Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I work hard day in and out and take massive action.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

News hit this past summer that Boston's Kiss 108 (a youth-driven radio station partial to Katy Perry and Lady Gaga) re-upped its contract with longtime morning host Matt Siegel through 2016. Most workers are buffeted by forces outside their control — industry changes, technological innovations, globalization, and the like.

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Brand Supply Chain Godin Insurance 10