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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

The book is short but powerful enough to help entrepreneurs and ideators in bringing their ideas to life by following a proven five part framework. What entrepreneurs should always look for is to offer a solution that fills a current or potential market need, rather than create a solution that’s looking for a problem to solve.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing.

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My 12 “Must Read” Best Leadership Books for 2014

The Empowered Buisness

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. Another book gem comprised of 100 short, yet powerful leadership ideas for inspiring the best from others. Drum roll please ….

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. Building a Physician Leadership Pipeline.