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Leadership Strategies: Are You a Davos Woman?

Women on Business

One quick note, at our past WELL programs we have used clips from the film “Mona Lisa’s Smile” to get deeper discussions going. I would love to hear your responses to “What would you bring up if you were asked to be an attendee in Davos at the World Economic Forum”? You may want to watch this and then give your imagination wings.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road. You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show. While many have scoffed at the CBS show &# Undercover Boss, &# I believe it signals a very disturbing trend.

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Now, it is, in essence, a mystery story and a precursor of the Indiana Jones films. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. It is, also a pointer to the masculine in each of us.

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Business Leadership Expertise: Give a Gift of Honoring :: Women on.

Women on Business

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. I believe we can stand on the shoulders of the past by exploring the legacy of the women who held out a hand when the terrain was rocky, gave us courage when it looked hopeless, encouraged us to keep on keeping on no matter what. The others can get a silent salute from the heart.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Eight Communication Traps That Foil Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Use skits, storyboards, and films to develop customer personas and scenarios. Your finance person calls it financial modeling, your design person calls it rapid prototyping, yet they are both undertaking a similar and necessary discipline of exploring opportunities as they work to fine tune a solution. If it's off-brand, don't do it.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

This is a strong model for industries like consumer packaged goods, where one person, such as a brand manager, is responsible for product development from beginning to end. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance.