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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Tools for each challenge are presented, backed by examples from companies – from small firms to global giants – that have successfully put these methods into practice. Most business models grow up in an era when certain kinds of constraints are difficult to overcome. Take newspapers.