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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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Let’s Do Less Dead-End Work

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’ve just started your career or are the CEO of the company, if you’re a woman, people expect you to do routine, time-consuming tasks that no one else wants to do. Lise and Ruchika tell us how they’ve handled these kinds of requests and what managers can do to assign work fairly. Could you take notes?

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit.

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Leadership and The Attitude Contagion | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

For me, you’ve struck at the key difference between management and leadership. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Reply Gwyn Teatro August 16, 2010 at 4:19 am Thank you, Anne. You are the soul of generosity Reply Landon Creasy August 16, 2010 at 6:30 pm Great post Gwyn!

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.