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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S. Enter a coalition.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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Leadership Is More than Interpersonal Skills

Harvard Business Review

Most of the 89,000 leadership books offered on Amazon.com focus on traditional interpersonal leadership: the relationships between leaders and followers. Interpersonal leadership sets up an expectation that leaders must be in dialog or at least in view of their followers. This is a classic topic in the management field.

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When Empowering Employees Works, and When It Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

But our recent research found that this style of leadership works best in motivating certain types of performance and certain types of employees. Empowered employees are more likely to be powerful, confident individuals, who are committed to meaningful goals and demonstrate initiative and creativity to achieve them.

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The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On

Harvard Business Review

Rather, because of its power to magnify so many other leadership strengths. So I'd assert that when you are able to balance this critical skill with your other leadership abilities, you greatly amplify your power and impact. Leading change: Constructive change rarely happens passively.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Collaboration is not a style.