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Mindful Leadership And Personal Values

Joseph Lalonde

The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. Nevertheless, many leaders fall into this trap even without knowing what is happening.

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. If it’s largely the latter, management plays a more vigorous role: establishing roles and processes, setting goals and measures, and reviewing progress at every step.”

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Hence, it is rarely a straightforward process, and if the team is committed to the goals and direction of the entire organization, one no is an inappropriate test of the idea.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Townes, and Henry L.

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Millennials Say They’ll Relocate for Work-Life Flexibility

Harvard Business Review

According to Kathleen Christensen, Program Director at the Alfred P. Gone are the days where an employee seeking flexibility goes out on a limb, risking the potential of stigma, to a new day, where the manager initiates the conversation about how flex can help the employee, the team, and the division to achieve their mutual goals.

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