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Leadership – Unsafe at Any Speed?

Great Leadership By Dan

And here's where our auto design safety analogy comes together with my thoughts on leadership. 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. Leadership is a responsibility!

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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. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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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. Lean features.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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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. Competition Leadership Retail' A company’s age may count against it, but it’s no guarantee of failure.

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