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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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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. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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What Driverless Cars Mean for Today’s Automakers

Harvard Business Review

The automotive industry has opened up again. Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels.

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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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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business Review

Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Goldman Sachs.

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