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Transformational Growth and Disruptive Change: 4 Principles to Guide You

Marshall Goldsmith

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Great leaders have to ask: Where does your innovation come from? Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

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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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.