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Leadership – Unsafe at Any Speed?

Great Leadership By Dan

While leadership can confer ever-increasing levels of power, authority and compensation, it also carries with it greater and greater responsibility, just like automobile manufacturing. I don’t like Ralph Nader and I didn’t like the book, but there was definitely a role for government in automotive safety.”

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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The Less-Is-Best Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years I've looked at more than 2,000 ideas — products, services, processes and strategies. Gore, maker of GORE-TEX and other fluoropolymer products, is known for their team-based culture void of job titles. He then eliminated all central control: personnel, product development, purchasing.

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What the Auto Industry Can Learn from Cloud Computing

Harvard Business Review

The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer. Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. And state and federal departments of transportation have barely started to think about the pros and cons of self-driving vehicles, which are poised to revolutionize automotive and related industries.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

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