Career Advancement

JULY 1, 2019

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” Braxton Asks: To prepare my high-performers to take on more challenging roles, my company wants to hold a leadership training event.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. When the company began installing electricity in homes, Morgan’s home in New York was one of the first to get electricity. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. Our lead drug, upon which the future of the company then hinged, failed to get the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?

Development 18

Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More and more American companies are surviving and growing beyond 16 years. The implicit axiom here is that robust companies that have sustained and grown over the longer term are somehow less innovative. And Alibaba is a 16 year-old company, and no one is claiming it is sluggish or un-innovative.) The supporting evidence?

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Entrepreneur Biotechnology Real Estate Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. I know because I ask a second question: On a scale of one to five, how would you rate the quality of your current network? Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. In fast-growing economies around the world, a small but growing cadre of innovative, entrepreneurial companies are driving most job and revenue growth.

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