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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Carrie Koens, from Weaving Influence, completes a pass to Julie Winkle Giulioni , who wrote Talent Management Systems: Sometimes the Cure Makes the Patient Sicker. Well-intentioned talent management systems are frequently to blame for undermining the quality of career conversations. Managers, Address Shadow Expectations.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. 6) Career – I’ve always known what I wanted to do and been engaged in work I truly believe in, but I’ve sabotaged myself with too much idealism and not enough business wisdom. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca.

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To Make Innovation Stick, Try Trying

Harvard Business Review

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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Small Businesses Need Big Data, Too

Harvard Business Review

A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. They were able to envision long-range innovations, rather than reacting to competitors’ or the retailers’ actions.

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Find Your Moment of Obligation

Harvard Business Review

For 2012 fellow Rachel Armstrong it was when she was forced to give up her childhood dream to become a farmer in rural Minnesota due to crippling cultural and environmental poverty and a growing lack of connections between rural neighbors, urban eaters, and farmland. And we lose out on creating meaningful careers and lives.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review , TED and Good , to the Social Enterprise Program at Harvard.

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When Health Care Providers Look at Problems from Multiple Perspectives, Patients Benefit

Harvard Business Review

She planned to entrust him and his family to manage his dressing changes, as well as his tracheostomy and drain care, with the support of frequent outpatient nursing visits — all very routine protocol, especially for someone who seemed alert and capable. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center.