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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

2 Linda C Smith December 17th, 2010 at 3:17 pm This is an interesting article and interesting that this topic would come up with female leaders at Purdue. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. But is there a video? I can’t see one.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., Invest real money.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. To start, assess the network you have today.

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