leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. Attend professional conferences. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

They engineer productive collisions of people to tackle important topics, through clearer questions, challenging conversations, and listening with curiosity. And their conference was visibly diverse (I later learned the demographic ratios were 50% women, 30% people of color, 25% LGBT, with a range of ages from 20 to 70). Skill sets.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Deb Calvert ( People First Productivity Solutions ) The master skill for leaders is ability to learn. They can be learned, absorbed, honed. Leaders are learners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Many consumers think of us as a vacuum cleaner company – and indeed our first product, in 1919, was a vacuum. As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

With dark-green-tinted spectacles, many call for a return to only locally grown or manufactured products. But there is also evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can actually help to spur adoption of cleaner production methods. For example, cooperation between the U.S. and Canada (most notably the 1991 U.S.-Canada

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. But I think the declinism is overwrought.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When corporations create shared value they increase their profits and create greater social impact, resulting in powerful transformations and innovations in both business and society. In GE's case, it is the quality, cost, and access issues plaguing healthcare, and for Nestlé, it is excess water use in agricultural production.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. You must move from B2C to B2B, or vice versa.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Women are offered lower pay and less institutional research funding when they join a faculty, and they continue to earn considerably less than men—even among those at the same level and with comparable productivity. This can hamper cooperative parenting and make it harder for women to stay in the field. What Can Be Done?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Hiring policies influence morale, productivity and turnover, marketing efforts shape demand growth, and competitors fight back. From cooperation to competition, a game with multiplayer features taps into the rich culture of board games humans have been playing for centuries. Games can be rolled out easily to many managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Attend a conference you have never before attended.

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