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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

And social movements aren’t only the domain of community organizers and college students. From the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism to the Conscious Capitalism organization, groups are forming with a mission (in the words of the latter) to “inspire, educate and empower companies to elevate humanity through business.”

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Are Your Most Talented People Losing Their Minds?

Harvard Business Review

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. Effective executives, as Peter Drucker noted, want to get ahead of potential problems. Is choosing ignorance a sustainable behavior for knowledge-intensive organizations? So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? My bet is, no.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more).

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

This is a consequence of introducing the horizontal enablement of social media, where value is a function of time, place, participants and other factors beyond the control of supplier individuals or organizations. We are starting to see more relationships among organizations (and even among competitors ) in order to better serve customers.

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