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Don Draper Is Replaceable; Joan Holloway Isn???t

Harvard Business Review

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Its not that creative people arent valuable! Advertising Leadership Research' Of course they are. Not at all!

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things?

Harvard Business Review

The story of finance over the last 25 years has been the story of innovation run amok — and of our systematic failure, as a society, as companies, as individual leaders, to learn from mistakes we seem determined to keep making. Can you distinguish between genuine creativity and mindless imitation?